US History A Timeline

By viennalemmon
  • 1492

    Discovery of America By Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    1754-1763

  • The Boston Tea Party

    December

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    April

  • The Decleration of Independence

    August 2nd

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    September-October

  • The Constitutional Convention

    May-September

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

    June

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Trail of Tears

    1831-1833

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

    1846-1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

    September

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    April

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    January

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    April

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    April

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    1865-1870

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

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