US History and Literature: A TimeLine

By TanTonedTeaKettl
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Discovery of America

  • Period: Aug 3, 1492 to

    US History Time Line

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • Beginning of French and Indian War

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Organization of National Oil Trust

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

    The 13th was passed on 1/31/1865
    The 14th was passed on 7/9/1865
    The 15th was passed on 2/3/1870

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The end of Reconstruction

  • Invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane.

    The electric light was invented in 1879.
    The telephone was invented on 3/10/1876
    The Airplane was invented on 9/17/1903

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President