US History A Timeline

By P.T.Adlard
  • Oct 10, 1492

    discovery of america

  • settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    french and indian war

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The invention of the electric light

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • Period: to

    trail of tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • invention of the telegraph

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Period: to

    Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • invention of the telephone

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Period: to

    The Spanish-American War

  • invention of the airplane