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US History A Timeline

By LilyParker
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus Discovers America

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • 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 Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • 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

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • The Fourteenth Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The Fifteenth Amendment

  • Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

    I could only find a year for this one so I put January 1st.

  • The Invention of the Telephone

  • The Invention of the Electric Light

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

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