U.S History

By Amber-Teya
  • Prehistory Ends
    3200 BCE

    Prehistory Ends

  • Early human migration
    1800 BCE

    Early human migration

  • 1400

    MARKER U.S H1

  • 1492

    Columbus 1st Journey

  • 1493

    Columbus 2nd Journey

  • 1498

    Columbus 3rd Journey

  • 1499

    Vespucci Sails for Spain

    He reaches America only to realise it is a new land not India.
  • 1501

    Vespucci Sails for Portugal

  • 1502

    Columbus 4th Journey

  • Jamestown Founded

  • Mayflower

  • Europeans Settle New England

  • War of Independence Begins

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • France and the United States form an Alliance

  • Spain enters war against Britain

  • British forces surrender at Yorktown

  • War of Independence Ends

  • Peace of Paris Signed

  • The Constitution

  • Washington Becomes 1st President

  • John Adams 2nd US president

  • Labor Unions Started

  • Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Lewis and Clark

  • The War of 1812

  • The Panic of 1819

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Trail of Tears Starts

  • Trail of Tears Ends

  • The Panic of 1857

  • The Confederacy

  • Civil War Begins

  • Abraham Lincoln Becomes 16th President of the U.S

  • The Homestead Act

  • Homesteading the Plains Begins

  • Slavery Abolished

  • The Long Walk

    Deportation of The Navajo

  • Civil War Ends

  • Reconstruction Begins

  • Cattle Drives Begin in the Great Plains

  • Alaska Purchased

  • First Transcontinental Railroad

  • Mass Immigration to U.S Begins

  • Carnegie Builds Steel Mill

  • Panic of 1873

  • Plains Wars Begin

  • Trail of Tears

  • First Telephone Conversation

    Alexander Graham Bell

  • Reconstruction Ends

  • Edison Develops Electric Light-bulbs

  • Plains Wars End

  • Homesteading the Plains Ends

  • Electricity for Cities Begins

  • Jim Crow Law Begining

  • Cattle Drives End in the Great Plains

  • Electricity for Cities Ends

  • Labor Unions Started

    Late 1800

  • Progressive Era Begins

  • The Panic of 1893

  • Hawaii Becomes U.S Possession

  • Spanish-American War

  • U.S Gains Control of Pacific Islands

    Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and others

  • U.S Becomes a World Power

  • U.S Takes Over Panama Canal Construction

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • Wright Brothers First Flight

  • The Panic of 1907

  • Progressive Era Ends

  • Henry Ford Builds Car Assembly Line

  • World War 1 Begins

  • Jim Crow Law Ends

  • US Opens Panama Canal

  • Russian Revolution

  • World War 1 Ends

  • Native Americans Become American Citizens

  • Mass Immigration to U.S Ends

  • Worldwide Depression Begins

  • World War 2 Begins

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Worldwide Depression Ends

  • World War 2 Ends

  • First Atomic Bomb Exploded

  • Cold War Begins

  • Civil Rights Movement Begins

  • Civil Rights Movement Ends

  • Cold War Ends

  • 9.11

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