US History A Timeline

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  • Period: 1492 to

    The Founding Era

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

    Christopher takes 3 ships and lands in the Americas
  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War Started

    This was the beginning of the 7 years, but there had been fighting for 2 years previous to this.

  • French and Indian War Ended

  • The Boston Tea Party

    England was putting huge taxes on the people in America and this was their retaliation.

  • The Battle at Lexington and Concord

    The first big battle between the Americans and the Brittish.

  • The Declaration of Independence Was Signed

    America became its own country

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    the siege went from 9/28/1781-10/19/1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of Cotton Gin

    The Cotton Gin is the machine that separated the seed from the cotton
  • Period: to

    The Antebellum Era

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    4 security laws passed by Congress

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    America bought 2,144,520 square km from France

  • The Beginning of the War of 1812

  • The End of the War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The U.S Congress allowed Missouri to become a sate

  • Andrew Jackson was elected

  • The Telegraph was Invented

  • The Panic of 1837

    A financial crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson

  • The Trail of Tears

    Andrew Jackson forced the Indians out of their land

  • Beginning of American Mexican War

  • End of American Mexican War

  • The Compromise of 1850

    Congress passed 5 Bills about slavery
  • Period: to

    The Civil War Era

  • Firing of Fort Summer

    Rebels fired on Fort Summer in the early morning in South Carolina

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    A proclamation that freed slaves in the Confederate states

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    This event ended the Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    The assassination of the 16th president of the United Sates

  • 14th Amendment

  • Period: to

    The Progressive Era

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The Invention of the Telephone

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

    a strike by railroad workers

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    Roosevelt becomes president after the assassination of William McKinley

  • The Electric light

  • The Invention of the Airplane

    The Wright Brothers make their first airplanes