Timeline: US History | Timetoast

Jan 1, 1607

Colonial America

13 colonies: Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia
Period: Jan 1, 1754 to Jan 1, 1763

French-Indian War
Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783

The Revolutionary War
Jul 4, 1776

The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Declared independence from britain
Period: May 25, 1787 to Sep 17, 1787

Constitutional Convention

Address weakness to central gov. that existed under the Articles of Confederation
Sep 17, 1787

The Constitution Was Written
Apr 30, 1803

The Louisiana Purchase
Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln
The North thought that slavery was bad and the south didn't.
Period: Apr 2, 1898 to Aug 2, 1898

Spanish-American War
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War l

Pres. Woodrrow Wilson
Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Feb 1, 1939

The Great Depression

Pres. Herbert Hoover
Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

World War ll

Franklin Roosevelt, Japan, Germany, Italy.
Period: Feb 1, 1947 to Feb 1, 1991

The Cold War

The geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR
Sep 11, 2001

9/11

terrosists attacked the U.S.
Feb 22, 2016

Emancipation Proclomation

All slaves will be free