US history timeline

By ATLA
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

    Columbus sailed to America

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

    English men and boys came to settle North America

  • being The French and Indian War

    the french and English fighting over land in North America

  • end The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

    American collines 342 chests dumped tea into the Boston harbor

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The invention of the electric light,

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • end The Panic of 1837

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    Pettersen house Washington DC

  • 14th, Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the telephone,

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    1892 and 1894

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane