America history By jrmutize 15,480 BCE Migration out of Africa 9480 BCE End of Ice Age 1492 The Beginning of Spain's Transatlantic Slavery 1607 The First Colonizers Entering the New World 1617 The Death of Matoax 1620 The Pilgrims Entering the New World 1725 The First Black People Arriving and Used as Slaves in Jamestown 1765 The Quartering Act Law Passed 1765 The American Revolution Begins 1770 The Boston Massacre 1783 The End of the American Revolution 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1804 The Expedition of Lewis and Clark 1812 The War of 1812 Start 1815 The War of 1812 Ends 1829 The Erie Canal is Created 1830 Emily Dickinson is Born 1838 The Trail of Tears 1846 The Mormon Trail 1848 The Mexican American War 1850 The Gold Rush 1861 Start of the Civil War 1862 Homesteading the Plains 1865 End of the Civil War 1865 The Start of the Reconstruction Era 1866 Cattle Drives in the Great Plains 1867 Alaska purchased 1869 Suez Canal opens 1869 Transcontinental Railroad 1873 Carnegie Builds Steel Mill 1874 Plains Wars 1876 First telephone conversation 1877 End of the Reconstruction Era 1878 Edison revises electric light bulb 1880 Labor unions started 1883 Jim Crow Laws Created 1885 Electricity for cities 1893 The Panic of 1893 1898 Spanish-American War 1898 U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico 1898 U.S. gains control of the Philippines 1898 Hawaii becomes U.S. possession 1900 Massive immigration to America 1901 U.S. takes over Panama Canal construction 1914 WWI 1917 Russian Revolution 1929 World-wide Depression 1939 World War II 1945 First atomic bomb exploded 1946 Beginning of Cold War 1950 Korean War 1959 Cuban Revolution
