US History A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timespan

  • Jamestown is Settled

  • French/Indian War Starts

  • French/Indian War Ends

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812 Starts

  • War of 1812 Ends

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • The Election of Andrew Jackson

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • Mexican/American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • 14th Amendment

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 15th Amendment

  • The Electric Light is Invented

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • Spanish/American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Is Made President