US History Timeline 1492 - 2011 Marshall Bailey and kyle peets

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  • Columbus Discovers America
    Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • John Cabot claims North America for England
    Jun 24, 1497

    John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
    Sep 1, 1534

    Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River

  • May 11, 1558

    Minnesota was founded

  • Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

    Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

  • Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown

    Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown

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  • Mayflower Compact

  • first publoc school

  • First College (Harvard)

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Ben Franklin Lightning Rod

  • Period: to

    French & Indian war

  • Proclamation of 1763 by King George III

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    Stamp Act

  • Period: to

    Revolution started

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    Articles of Confederation

  • Constitution

  • Delaware was founded

  • Pennsylvania was founded

  • New Jersey was founded

  • Georgia was founded

  • connecticut was founded

  • Masschusetts was founded

  • Maryland was founded

  • South Carolina was founded

  • New Hampshire was founded

  • Virginia was founded

  • New York was founded

  • Period: to

    George Washington

  • North Carolina was founded

  • 1790 U.S.A population

    1790 U.S.A population

    4.0 people in united states in 1790

  • Rhode Island was founded

  • Vermont was founded

  • Bill of Rights

  • Kentucky was founded

  • Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin

  • 11th Amendment

  • Tennessee was founded

  • Period: to

    John Adams

  • 1800 U.S.A population

    1800 U.S.A population

    5.3 million people in the United states in 1800
  • Period: to

    Thomas Jefferson

  • Ohio was founded

  • 12th Amendment

  • Period: to

    James Madison

  • 1810 U.S.A population

    1810 U.S.A population

    7.2 people in the united states in 1810
  • Period: to

    war of 1812 started

  • Louisiana was founded

  • Indiana was founded

  • Period: to

    James Monroe

  • Mississippi was founded

  • Illinois was founded

  • Alabama was founded

  • 1820 U.S.A population

    1820 U.S.A population

    9.2 million people in the United states.

  • Maine was founded

  • Missouri was founded

  • Period: to

    John Quincy Adams

  • Graham Cracker

  • Period: to

    Andrew Jackson

  • 1830 U.S.A population

    1830 U.S.A population

    12.8 million people in 1830

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Oberlin CollegeFirst college to accept Women

  • Oberlin College First School to accept Blacks

  • Period: to

    Texas Revolution

  • Arkansas was founded

  • U of M was founded in Ann Arber

  • Period: to

    Martin Van Buren

  • Michigan was founded

  • Vulcanized Rubber Charles Goodyear

  • 1840 U.S.A population

    1840 U.S.A population

    17 million people in the united states in 1840
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    William Henry Harrison

  • Period: to

    John Tyler

  • Period: to

    James Knox Polk

  • Flordia was founded

  • Texas was founded

  • Period: to

    Mexican American War

  • Iowa was founded

  • Doughnut

  • Wiconsin was founded

  • Period: to

    Zachary Taylor

  • 1850 U.S.A population

    1850 U.S.A population

    23 million people in the united states in 1850

  • California was founded

  • Period: to

    Millard Fillmore

  • Period: to

    Franklin Pierce

  • Michigan State was founded

  • Period: to

    James Buchanan

  • Pencil Eraser invented by Hymen Lipman

  • Oregon was founded

  • 1860 U.S.A population

    1860 U.S.A population

    31.4 million people in the united states in 1860

  • Repeating Rifle- Benjamin Tyler Henry

  • Machine Gun Richard Gatling

  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Kansas was founded

  • Period: to

    Abraham Lincoln

  • Breakfast Cereal James Caleb Jackson

  • West Virginia was founded

  • Nevada was founded

  • Period: to

    Andrew Johnson

  • Nabraska was founded

  • 14th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

  • 1870 u.s.a population

    1870 u.s.a population

    38.6 million people in the united states in 1870

  • 15th Amendment

  • Jeans, Levi Strauss

  • Colorado was founded

  • Colorado was founded

  • Toilet Paper Seth Wheeler

  • Period: to

    Rutherford Birchard Hayes

  • Light Bulb Thomas Alva Edison

  • 1880 u.s.a. population

    1880 u.s.a. population

    50.1 million people in the united states in 1880

  • James Abram Garfield

  • Period: to

    Chester Alan Arthur

  • Period: to

    Grover Cleveland

  • Coca-Cola John S. Pemberton

  • Period: to

    Benjamin Harrison

  • North Dakota was founded

  • South Dakota was founded

  • Montana was founded

  • Washington was founded

  • Idaho was founded

  • Wyoming was founded

  • 1890 u.s.a. population

    1890 u.s.a. population

    62.9 million people in the united states in 1890

  • CMU was founded

  • Period: to

    Grover Cleveland

  • Utah was founded

  • Period: to

    William McKinley

  • 1900 u.s.a. population

    1900 u.s.a. population

    76.2 million people in the united states in 1900
  • Period: to

    Theodore Roosevelt

  • Oklahoma was founded

  • Period: to

    William Howard Taft

  • 1910 u.s.a. population

    1910 u.s.a. population

    92.2 million people in the united states in 1910

  • New Mexico was founded

  • Arizona was founded

  • 17th Amendment

  • 16th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Woodrow Wilson

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • 18th Amendment

  • 1920 u.s.a. poplation

    1920 u.s.a. poplation

    106 million people in the united states in 1920

  • 19th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Warren Gamaliel Harding

  • Period: to

    Calvin Coolidge

  • Period: to

    Herbert Clark Hoover

  • 1930 u.s.a population

    1930 u.s.a population

    123 million people in the united states in 1930

  • 20th Amendment

  • 21st Amendment

  • Period: to

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • 1940 u.s.a population

    1940 u.s.a population

    132 million people in the united states in 1940
  • Period: to

    Harry S. Truman

  • 1950 u.s.a population

    1950 u.s.a population

    151 million people in the united states in 1950
  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Period: to

    Dwight David Eisenhower

  • Alaska was founded

  • Hawaii was founded

  • 1960 u.s.a population

    1960 u.s.a population

    179.3 million people in the united states in 1960
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • 23rd Amendment

  • Period: to

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • Period: to

    Lyndon Baines Johnson

  • 24th Amendment

  • 25th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Richard Milhous Nixon

  • 1970 u.s.a population

    1970 u.s.a population

    203 million people in the united states in 1970

  • 26th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Gerald Rudolph Ford

  • Period: to

    James Earl Carter

  • 1980 u.s.a population

    1980 u.s.a population

    226.5 million people in the united states in 1980
  • Period: to

    George Herbert Walker Bush

  • 1990 u.s.a population

    1990 u.s.a population

    248.7 million people in the united states in 1990
  • Period: to

    Persian Gulf War

  • 27th Amendment

  • Period: to

    William Jefferson Clinton

  • 2000 u.s.a population

    2000 u.s.a population

    281.4 million people in the united states in 2000

  • Invasion of Afghanistan started

  • Period: to

    George Walker Bush

  • Invasion of Iraq

  • Barack Hussein Obama

  • 2010 u.s.a population

    2010 u.s.a population

    308.7 million people in the united states in 2010