US History A Timeline

By TooManyChickens
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian war

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Declaration of Independance

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts Passed

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Elected

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Telegraph Invented

  • Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing at Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Standard Oil Trust Organized

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

  • 13th Amendment Passed

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment Passed

  • 15th Amendment Passed

  • Telephone Invented

  • Electric Light Invented

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish American War

  • Invention of Airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected