US History A Timeline

By besmartA
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    Ended February 10, 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Ended October 19, 1781

  • Constitutional Convention

    Ended September 17, 1787

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    Ended February 18, 1815

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • Invention of the telegraph

    1830's - 1840's

  • Trail of Tears

    1830 - 1850

  • Panic of 1837

    1837 - 1840's

  • Mexican-American War

    Ended February 2, 1848

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

    1865 - 1870

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Invention of the electric light

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War

    Ended August 12, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the airplane