U.S. History

By 24rbarlow
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus' 1st voyage

    Columbus sailing to America

  • The year Jamestown was settled

    The British settled Jamestown, Virginia

  • End of the French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war began is 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris

  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed many people while being harasses by a mob in Boston

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War

  • The Declaration of Independence

    A document passes to announce and explain separation from Great Britain

  • The battle of Yorktown

    A decisive victory by combined American troops during the Revolutionary War

  • signing of the constitution

    39 delegates to the constitution convention, representing 12 states, endorsed the constitution created during the four month long convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

    A machine invented to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.

  • President Washington's inauguration

    When George Washington was announced or inaugurated as president of the United States of America

  • Buying of the Louisiana Purchase

    A deal between the Unites States and France, in which the Unites States acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land

  • Lewis and Clark expedition begins

    The first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States

  • The battles of Fort McHenry

    British forces attacked Washington, defeated U.S forces, and burned the capitol. This attack also inspired the the National Anthem

  • The battle of the Alamo

    The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar, killing the Texan and immigrant occupiers.

  • president Lincoln's assassination

    Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

  • The 13th amendment

    The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.