us history

By killer-t
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War start

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The French and Indian War end

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • the Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

    a was with the us and its allies against Britain and all its collanies

  • The Missouri Compromise

    slavery stopped expanding

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Trail of Tears start

    native American migration into new settlements

  • The invention of the electric light

    the first electric light, not the lightbulb

  • The Panic of 1837

    one of the biggest financial crisis's in America that also started one of the worst widespread depression

  • The Trail of Tears end

  • The invention of the telegraph

    we'd still be using pony express if not for the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

    advancement achieved- texas

  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    all slavery stopped

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    Lee stayed in Appomattox until April 12th, the day of the formal infantry surrender ceremony and the fourth anniversary of the first shot at Fort Sumter that started the conflict.

  • 13th Amendments

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    shortly after the Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • 14th Amendments

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

    the first impeachment among very few

  • 15th Amendments

  • The invention of the telephone

    better than telegraph

  • Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

    a rich man was working on it at the same time but was beat by bicycle sellers/makers