American history timeline

By bear5
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    Christopher Columbus's first voyage was in 1492 and landed in the Bahamas.
  • 1502

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    Amerigo Vespucci was the first person to discover North America and he called it the new world.
  • Jul 26, 1533

    Francisco Pizarro González

    Francisco Pizarro González
    Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador that led the a expedition that conquer the Incan Empire.
  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was a English sea explore he was know for exploring Canada. But in 1608 he sailed up the Hudson River and later was named after him.
  • The beginning of the Industrial Revolution

    The industrial revolution change the world a lot because they had slow production but the industrial revolution change that because it started factory's for one purpose and mass production.
  • The invention of the Spinning Jenny

    The invention of the Spinning Jenny
    Around 1764, Englishman James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny, a machine that enabled an individual to produce multiple spools of threads simultaneously.
  • The constitution

    In May, 1787 the constitution was written and in 1789-1790 was ratified.
  • Election of 1800s

    This election had to good opponents. Hamilton and Jefferson were running for president.
  • First commercial steam boat

    First commercial steam boat
    In the early 1800s, American Robert Fulton (1765-1815) built the first commercially successful steamboat.
  • The Temperance movement

    The Temperance movement
    The Temperance movement was the ban on alcohol because no one want to work because they were drunk all the time.
  • New road construction process

    Around 1820, Scottish engineer John McAdam (1756-1836) developed a new process for road construction.
  • Nat Turners Rebellion

    Nat Turners Rebellion
    Nat Turner, a slave, along with about 60 other slaves led a violent rebellion that resulted in the death of more than 50 Virginians. Nat and many others were executed for their part, or suspected part, in the revolt. Nat Turner's Rebellion struck long-term fear in the hearts of slave owners, which caused them to place new restriction on slaves and prompted a national debate on the slavery question.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Disagreements erupted over whether land acquired from Mexico after the American war would become slave or free states. The compromises admitted California as a free, and the inhabitants of the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be allowed to decide whether or not to permit slavery in their territories when they applied for statehood. The compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which denied captured black legal.
  • Mass production of steel

    Mass production of steel
    In the 1850s, British engineer Henry Bessemer developed the first inexpensive process for mass-producing steel.
  • Lincoln Elected

    Lincoln Elected
    On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter is a sea fort, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  • Appomattox

    Appomattox
    The Battle of Appomattox was fought on the morning of April 9, 1865 it was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.