US History Timeline

By DaleWayman10
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    By Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    May 28, 1754

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the Telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Period: to

    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    (1865, 1868, 1870)

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The invention of the Telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Period: to

    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Period: to

    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Invention of the Airplane

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