US History Timeline

By mr.manguydudesir
  • Period: Oct 12, 1491 to

    US History A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 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

    April 19, 1775

  • The Declaration of Independence

    July 4, 1776

  • 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

  • Period: to

    The Mexican-American War:

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell

  • The Invention of the Electric Light

    Invented by Thomas Edison

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Pullman Strike

  • Homestead Strike

  • Period: to

    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Airplane

    Wright brothers
    (fun fact, I am distantly related to them from my moms side)

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