US History

By Timeliner56
  • Period: Oct 11, 1492 to

    US History a Timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • 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

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

    In the 1830s and 1840s

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the telephone

    1849, 1854, 1876

  • The invention of the electric light

  • Homestead Strikes

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War

  • The invention of the airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

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