History

Us History A Timeline

By tylermartinez
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    Us History A Timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • Beginning of French and Indian war

  • End of French and Indian war

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional convention begins

  • Constitutional convention ends

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Period: to

    Alien and sedition Acts signed

    Series of four laws, last on July 14

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed

  • War of 1812 begins

    U.S. declares war on Britain

  • War of 1812 ends

  • Missouri compromise signed

  • Andrew Jackson elected

  • Panic of 1837 begins

  • Invention of the telegraph

  • Trail of Tears

    no official day The official month is May

  • Mexican-American War begins

  • Mexican-American War ends

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation takes effect

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    died April 15

  • 13th Amendment ratified

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment ratified

  • 15th Amendment ratified

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Invention of the light bulb

  • Standard Oil Trust organized

  • Homestead Strike begins

  • Spanish-American War begins

    U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Spanish-American War ends

    Treaty of Paris is signed

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • First airplane flight

    Wright brothers

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