US History A Timeline

By Chase Pimentel
  • Sep 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

    Start

  • Constitutional Convention

    End

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • invention of the electric light

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • invention of the telegraph

    started in the 30s

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

    started in Spring of 1837

  • invention of the Telegraph

    ended in the 40s

  • Panic of 1837

    ended in the mid 40s

  • Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

    September of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation proclamation

  • 13, 14, and 15 Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincon's assassination

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • invention of the telephone

  • Organization Standard Oil trust

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • invention of the airplane