US history time line

By kadeseth
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    The French and Indian War

  • The boston tea party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the light bulb

  • Period: to

    The Panic of 1837

    To mid 1840s
  • Period: to

    the mexican american war

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendments

  • Invention of the telephone

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the airplane