US History A Timeline

  • Oct 10, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 10, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention fo the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincol's Assassination

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    Between 1865-1870
  • Andrew Jackson's Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Invention of the Electric Light, Telephone, and Airplane.

    Between 1876-1903
  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President