US History Timeline

By Lara Stater
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independance

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of The Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • 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

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • The Invention of The Electric Light, Telephone, and Airplane

    These all happened in different years, so I'm going to use the year that the airplane was invented.

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