US History Timeline By LAV4cool 1492 Columbus discovers America 1607 Settlement of Jamestown Period: 1754 to 1763 French Indian War Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 Battle of Lexington Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence 1781 Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1794 Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase Period: 1803 to 1812 The War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1829 Andrew Jackson Election Period: 1830 to 1835 Trail of Tears 1832 Telegraph Invention 1837 The Panic of 1837 Period: 1846 to 1848 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 led to civil war Apr 12, 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter Jan 1, 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust Period: 1865 to 1870 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments Apr 9, 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse Apr 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Period: 1876 to 1905 The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane Period: 1895 to 1898 The Spanish-American War 1896 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president