U.S history A timeline

By Allotherideaswheretaken
  • Period: 1492 BCE to

    Timespan from 1492-1901

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus discovered America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian war

  • Boston tea party

  • Battle of Lexington and concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional convention(began)

  • Constitutional convention(end)

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and sedition act

  • Invention of the electric light

    (I could not find exact month and day only year

  • Louisiana purchase

  • The war of 1812(begins)

  • The war of 1812(ends)

  • Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson election

  • Panic of 1837

  • Trail of tears

  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Mexican-American war

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing of fort Sumter

  • Emancipation proclamation

  • 13th,14th, and 15th amendment passed

  • Surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s impeachment

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Organization of standard oil trust

  • Pullman and homestead strikes

  • Spanish-American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the airplane

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