American History (HUS 1, 2, 3, 4) By Odj199 1492 Columbus reaches the Bahamas 1607 Jamestown 1620 Plymouth 1675 Stamp Tax 1675 Stamp Tax 1676 King Philip's War 1770 Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre 1774 1st Continental Congress 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord Period: 1775 to 1783 Revolutionary War 1776 Declaration of Independence 1787 United States Constitution Signed Period: 1806 to 1894 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1820 Missouri Compromise Period: 1831 to 1838 Trail of Tears Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican War 1849 Gold Rush begins 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War Period: 1862 to 1879 Homesteading the Great Plains 1865 Alaska Purchased Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Period: 1866 to 1886 Cattle Drives in Great Plains 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad 1869 Suez Canal opens 1870 Labor unions started Period: 1870 to 1924 Massive immigration to America 1873 Carnegie builds steel mill Period: 1874 to 1881 Plains Wars 1876 First telephone conversation--Alexander Grahm Bell--1876 1878 Edison invents electric light bulb Period: 1880 to 1890 Electricity for cities Period: 1883 to 1914 Jim Crow Laws created Period: 1890 to 1910 Progressive Era 1893 The Panic of 1893 1896 Hawaii becomes U.S. possession 1898 U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands 1898 Spanish-American war 1900 United States becomes a world power 1901 U.S. takes over Panama Canal construction 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes President 1903 Wright brothers make first airplane flight 1903 Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line 1914 U.S. opens the Panama Canal Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution Period: 1929 to 1941 World Wide Depression Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1945 First Atomic Bomb Exploded 1946 Beginning of the Cold War Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1952 to 1965 American Civil Rights Movement 1957 Cuban Revolution 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy Period: 1965 to 1973 Vietnam War 1989 Collapse of U.S.S.R. in Europe 1991 End of the Cold War; Break up of the Soviet Union 1992 Formation of the European Union Sep 11, 2000 Terrorists Attack American Landmarks / 9/11 Period: 2003 to 2011 Iraq War 2008 Election of President Barack Obama
