U.S History

Columbus Discovered America

Aug 3, 1492

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm

The James town settlement

May 4, 1607

http://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/timeline.html

French and Indian War

Period: May 28, 1754 to Feb 10, 1736

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-french-and-indian-war-ends

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party

The battle of Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/fascinating-facts/

Battle of Yorktown

Period: Sep 28, 1781 to Oct 19, 1781

https://www.google.com/#q=the+battle+of+yorktown+dates

Constitutional Convention

Period: May 25, 1787 to Sep 17, 1787

http://www.shmoop.com/constitutional-convention/timeline.html

Invention of Cotton Gin

Mar 14, 1794

https://www.eliwhitney.org/7/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin

Alien and Sedition acts

Jun 18, 1798

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adams-passes-first-of-alien-and-sedition-acts

Louisiana Purchase

Apr 30, 1801

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=18

War of 1812

Period: Jun 18, 1812 to Feb 18, 1815

http://www.history.com/topics/war-of-1812

Missouri Compromise

Mar 22, 1820

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-passes-the-missouri-compromise

Andrew Jackson's Election

Period: Oct 31, 1828 to Dec 2, 1828

http://millercenter.org/president/biography/jackson-campaigns-and-elections

Panic of 1837

Period: Mar 14, 1837 to Mar 28, 1842

https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/democracy-in-america-1815-1840-12/the-van-buren-administration-107/the-panic-of-1837-576-6968/

Telegraph Invention

Jan 6, 1838

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/morse-demonstrates-telegraph

Mexican-American War

Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 2, 1848

http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29, 1850

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html

The firing of fort sumter

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 13, 1861

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Emancipation Proclamation

Period: Sep 22, 1862 to Jan 1, 1863

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html

Standard Oil trust

Jan 1, 1863

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1804.html

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/appomattox-court-house

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Apr 14, 1865

http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination

13th Amendment

Dec 6, 1865

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=40

Andrew Jackson's Impeachment

Mar 13, 1868

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/senate-hears-impeachment-charges-against-andrew-johnson

14th amendment

Jul 28, 1868

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_revised_1.html

15th amendment

Feb 3, 1870

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=44

Telephone is invented

Mar 10, 1876

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell

Electric light

Nov 24, 1879

http://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html

Homestead and Pullman strike

May 31, 1890

http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html

Theodore Roosevelt President

Sep 14, 1901

http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/theodore-roosevelt-becomes-president-september-14-1901/

Airplane is invented

Dec 17, 1903

https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1903/