US History A Timeline

By Ldvigil
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • The start of the French and Indian war

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The start of the battle of Yorktown

  • The start of the Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of the Cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition acts were passed

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • The Trail of Tears

  • Andrew Jackson elected

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment passed

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment passed

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment passed

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strikes

  • The Pullman Strikes

  • The start of the Spanish-American War

  • The invention of the airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president