US History a Timeline

By kyliea
  • 1492

    Discovery of America

  • Period: 1492 to

    Events in History

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Act

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Telegraph

  • The panic of 1837

  • Trail of tears

  • Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing of Fort Sumter

  • 13, 14, and 15 amendments/ Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox

  • Abraham Lincon's Death

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • Telephone Invented

  • Organized the standard Oil Trust

  • Pullmen and Homestead Strike

  • Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt became President

  • Plane Invented

  • Electric Light