US History A Timeline - Ethan Cannon

By bigEcannon
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    By Christopher Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

    In Virginia

  • French and Indian War

    Ended 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Beginning of Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independance

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Ended Oct 19, 1781

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    By Eli Whitney

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    Ended Feb 18, 1815

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

    Ended 1877

  • Invention of Telegraph

    By Samuel Morse etc.

  • Panic of 1837

    Ended 1843

  • Mexican-American War

    Ended Feb 2, 1848

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

    Beginning of Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    End of Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    By John Wilkes Booth

  • 14th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • 15th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment

  • Invention of Telephone

    By Alexander Graham Bell

  • Invention of Electric Light

    By Thomas Edison etc.

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Railroad Strike

  • Spanish-American War

    Ended Dec 10, 1898

  • Invention of Airplane

    By Wilbur and Orville Wright

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected