US HIstory A Timeline

  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Colombus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Standard Oil Trust

  • Thirteenth Amendment

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

  • Fourteenth Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Fifteenth Amendment

  • The Invention of the Telephone

  • The Invention of the Electric Light

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • The Invention of the Airplane