US History Timeline

By joshcs
  • Period: 1492 to

    US History Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    This war lasted from 1754 to 1763 when they signed the Treaty of Paris.

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    This lasted from Sept. 28 - Oct. 19, 1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

    This lasted from May 25 - Sept. 17, 1787

  • 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

    This lasted from Oct. 31 -Dec. 2, 1828

  • The Trail of Tears

    From 1831 - 1877

  • The Panic of 1837

    From 1837 - 1843

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

    Lasted from April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

    November 1879-1876- December 17,1903

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

    It lasted from April 21, 1898 – December 10, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president