US History A Time Line

By hannahbabcock19
  • Aug 3, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Landing_of_Columbus_(2).jpg
  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • The Settlement Of James Town

  • Start of The French And Indian War (The Seven Year War)

  • End of The French and Italian War (The Seven Year War)

  • Boston Tea party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence was formally declared two days before, on July 2nd of 1776, but it wasn't until the fourth that congress approved it, and it wasn't until August 2nd of that year that it was sighed.

  • The Battle of York Town

    The battle lasted through the 19th of October, 1781.

  • The Constitutional Convention

    The Convention ended in September 17th, 1787.

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

    The cotton gin cleaned the cotton quickly and efficiently. Before it was invented a slave could only clean about one pound of cotton my hand in an entire day.

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    This act made all persons who were not born in America have to apply for USA citizenship.

  • The Louisiana Purchase Concluded

    Basically France lived in the Louisiana area, and sold it off to Spain, and they gave it back to France. After negotiations and such America bought Louisiana back for an insanely large amount of money.
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  • The War of 1812

    America went to war with Britain to stop their ships from being raided and to stop the Indians from being armed, Britain and America signed a peace treaty soon there after.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    Missouri could have slaves so long as the rest of the Louisiana Purchase did not.

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

    I'm not sure if I have the first two right...

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Trail of Tears

    The surviving Indians named this trail after they had been forced out of their rightful homes.

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    Samuel Morse invented the Telegraph

  • Mexican American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

    laws were put into use to help with the slavery problems America was going through.

  • The Firing On Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

    Final battle of the Civil War

  • President Abraham Lincon's Assasination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

    by this time all three had been set in action

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Spanish-American War

  • The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

    By this time all three inventions were up and working

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president