US history A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    the French and Indian War

  • the boston tea party

  • the battle of lexington and concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The battle of yorktown

  • The constitutional convention

  • The envention of cotton grin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • the Louisiana Purchase

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew jacksons election

  • the trail of tears

  • the invention of the telegraph

  • the panic of 1837

  • the mexican-american war

  • the invention of the telephone

  • the compromise of 1850

  • The firing on fort sumter

  • the emancipation proclomation

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • Abraham lincolns assassination

  • Andrew johnsons impeachment

  • The organization of standard oil

  • The Homestead strike/riot

  • Period: to

    The pullman strike

  • Period: to

    The spanish american war

  • the invention of the airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president