US History A Timeline

By Baileykemp
  • 1492

    The discovery of America by Columbus

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian war

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The battle of Yorktown

  • Period: to

    The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • Invention of the Electric Light

  • The war of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jacksons Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The panic of 1837

  • The Mexican American War

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • 13th, 14th, 15th, Amendments

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnsons Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman Srike

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Spanish American War

  • Invention of the Airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President