US History A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The discovery of America by Colimbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A Timeline

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian war

  • The Boston tea party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Decleration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of cotton gin

  • The alien and sedition acts

  • The invention of electric light

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • The war of 1812

  • The Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The trail of tears

  • The Mexican-American war

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • Abrham Lincoln assassination

  • 13th, 14th, 15th amendments

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • The organization of standard oil trust

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The pullman and homestead strikes

  • The Spanish-American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane