US History A Timeline

By Lance D.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • Jamestown is founded

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Battle of Yorktown ended

  • Constitutional Convention finished

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts passed

  • Louisiana Purchase signed

  • War of 1812 begins

  • War of 1812 ends

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson wins presidential election

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Telegraph invented

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Beginning of the Mexican-American War

  • End of the Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation issued

  • 13th Amendment passed

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment radified

  • Standard Oil Trust organized

  • 15th Amendment passed

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Invention of the electric light bulb

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War begins

  • Spanish-American War ends

  • Theodore Roosevelt takes office

  • First successful airplane test