US History Timeline

By Elijah_Justice
  • 1492

    Colombus discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Mexican American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Forming of the Organization of Standard oil trust

  • 13th Amendment Ratified

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 14th Amendment Ratified

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 15th Amendment Ratified

  • The invention of the telephone

  • Electric light invented

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the airplane