US History A Timeline

By Dallin C.
  • Aug 3, 1492

    America is Discovered

    by columbus
  • Period: Aug 3, 1492 to

    US History A Time span

  • Jamestown settled

  • French and Indian war Starts

    This battle is significant to George Washinton's military experience

  • French and Indian war ends

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

    Ended 6 months later on September 17, 1787

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

    By Eli Whitney

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Start of the war of 1812

  • End of the War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson elected

  • "Panic of 1837!"

    A hard finincial time for the United Sates of America.

  • Trial of Tears

    lasted through 1839

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • Mexican American war Starts

  • Mexican American war ends

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation signed

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution

  • Surrender at the Appomattox courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln Assasinated

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • Standard Oil Trust Organized

  • Invention of the telephone

    Invented by Graham Bell

  • Invention of the Commercial Electric Light

    This is the date he demonstrated his lightbulb publicly, it is unclear what day he actually created it, though the month he filed the patent was November
  • Period: to

    Homestead Strikes

  • Pullman Strikes

    Railraod strikes
  • Period: to

    Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the Airplane

    done by Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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