US History A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Aug 24, 1519 to

    Mexican Indian War

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Indipendance

  • Period: to

    Battle of Yorktown

  • Period: to

    Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

  • Alien Enemies Act

  • Sedition Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Period: to

    Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1837

  • Invention of Telegraph

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Period: to

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Surrender at Appamattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Invention of Electric Light

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Period: to

    Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the Airplane