US History Timeline By Mykle Saje 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1606 The Settlement of Jamestown Period: 1754 to 1763 french and indian war 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1774 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1774 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1794 The invention of the cotton gin 1796 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1801 The Louisiana Purchase Period: 1812 to 1815 The War of 1812 1818 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Election Period: 1831 to 1850 The trail of tears 1837 The Panic of 1837 1842 The invention of the telegraph Period: 1846 to 1848 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1862 The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1864 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 The invention of the electric light, the telephone, and the airplane
