History Timeline

By Olea.H
  • Aug 3, 1492

    The discovery of America

    by Columbus

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The start of the French and Indian war

  • the end of the French and Indian war

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of independence

  • The battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The invention of the electric light

  • Period: to

    The war of 1812

  • The Missouri comprise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The trail of tears

  • The panic of 1837

  • Period: to

    The Mexican American war

  • The compromise of 1850

    a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

  • The Firing on fort sumter

  • The emancipation proclamation

  • the Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Period: to

    The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the constitution

  • The surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's assasination

  • Andrew Johnson was impeached

  • The invention of the telephone

  • homestead strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Period: to

    The spanish american war

  • Theodore Roosevelt became president

  • The invention of the airplane

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