U.S. History timeline

By Jacalyn
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus finds america

  • Settlement of James town

  • French and Indian war

  • Boston tea party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

    It started to be signed on August 2nd of the same year.

  • The battle of Yorktown

  • The constitutional convention

    They met between May and September of 1787.

  • The invention of the cotton gin

    It was patented in 1794.

  • The Alien and Sedition acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The war of 1812

    Bet no one can guess when this one was.

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

    Again, could NEVER guess when this one was. Also it started in the spring.

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th 14th 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    What I found said that the Homestead strike was in 1892 and the Pullman strike was in 1894.

  • The Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane