US History A Timeline

By Jaryn Moore
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

    Columbus discovered America
  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

    Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in North America

  • The French-Indian war

    A North American conflict between Great Britain and France with both sides allied with the Native American Tribes

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The first military clashes of the American Revolutionary War.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    In Boston Masochists, Colonists disguised as Naive Americans and boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the British Harbor.

  • Declaration of Independance

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Arts

  • The Louisiana Purcshase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Spanish-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Aberham Lincon's Assassination.

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The Organism of standerd Oil trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead Striker

  • The Mexican-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Invention of the airplane

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