US History A Timeline Jacob Logsdon

By BlackIce257
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus' Discovery of the Americas

  • The Founding of the Jamestown Settlement

  • The French and Indian War Begins

  • End of the French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The American Revolutionary War Begins

  • The Declaration of Independence Ratified

  • Beginning of the Siege of Yorktown

  • End of the Siege of Yorktown

  • End of the American Revolutionary War

  • Creation of the Constitution (End of Convention)

  • The Invention of the Cotton Engine (Gin)

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana (New France) Pruchase

  • The War of 1812 Begins

  • End of the War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Invention of the Telegraph (By S. Morse)

  • The Mexican-American War Begins

  • End of the Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • The American Civil War Begins

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Creation of Standard Oil (later becoming Standard Oil Company in 1870))

  • Battle and Surrender of Appomattox Court House

  • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • End of the American Civil War

  • 13th Amendment

  • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • The Invention of the Electric Light (Light Bulb)

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Railroad Strike

  • The Spanish-American War Begins

  • End of the Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt's Election

  • Invention of the First Airplane