History Timeline - Lily Anderson

By sportsgirl8026
  • Period: 1490 to

    US History Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Beginning: The French and Indian War

  • Ending:The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention 1786-1789

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812 (1812-1815)

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837 (and into the mid-1840s)

  • The Trail of Tears (1838, and well into 1839)

  • The Mexican-American War (May 13, 1846-February 2, 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850 (Approved)

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter (April 12th and 13th)

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the electronic telephone

  • Invention of the light

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Steel Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War (Declared)

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the Airplane (Orville and Wilbur Wright's successful voyage))