US History A Timeline 1

By bradyb21
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

    The day that America was discovered by Christopher Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears Begins

  • Telegraph Invented

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13, 14, 15 Amendments Passed

  • Surrender at Appomattox

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • Telephone invented by Bell

  • Incandescent Light Bulb Invented by Swan & Edison

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War Begins

  • Theodore Roosevelt Inaugurated

  • Airplane Invented by Wilbur Brothers