US History Timeline 1492 - 2011-Cameron Jager

  • Oct 13, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

    Explorers
  • Jan 1, 1497

    John Cabot claims North America for England

    Explorers
  • May 10, 1534

    Jaques Cartier Explores the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River

    Explorers
  • Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

    Explorers
  • Captain John Smith explores and founder of Jamestown

    Explorers
  • 1620 - Mayflower Compact

  • First College - Harvard College, the first institute for higher education in a north Americancolony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts

  • 1689 - English Bill of Rights

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Period: to

    Revolution War

  • 1763 - Proclamation of 1763 by King George III

  • Period: to

    Stamp Act

  • Santa Clause- Colonial America

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    Articles of Confederation

  • Constitution

  • Census Population-4 million

  • Bill of Rights

  • 11th Amendment

  • Census Population 5.3 million

  • 12th Amendment

  • Census Population 7.2 million

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • U of M- 1817 - Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837

  • Census Population 9.6 million

  • Census Population 12.8 million

  • Indian Remival Act

  • Oberlin College - First college to accept Women

  • Oberlin College - First School to accept Blacks

  • Period: to

    Texas Revolution

  • Baseball-Alexander Cartwright

  • Period: to

    Mexican American War

  • Census Population 23 million

  • Michigan State

  • Census Population 31.4 million

  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Nevada

  • Nebraska

  • 14th Amendment

  • Census Population 38.6 miilion

  • 15th Amendment

  • Colorado

  • Census Population 50.1 million

  • Softball- George Hancock

  • North Dakota

  • South Dakota

  • Montana

  • Washington

  • Idaho

  • Wyoming

  • 1892 - CMU

  • volleyball

  • Utah

  • William McKinley

  • Census Population 76.2 million

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Oklahoma

  • William Howard Taft

  • Census Population 92.2 million

  • New Mexico

  • Arizona

  • 16th Amendment

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • 17th Amendment

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • 18th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment

  • census 106 million

  • Warrne Gamaliel Harding

  • Calvin Collidge

  • Mickey Mouse-Walt Disney

  • Herbert Clark Hoover

  • Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker

  • 20th Amendment

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • 21st Amendment

  • Soft Serve Ice Cream-JF and Alex McCullogh

  • Period: to

    Wolrd War 2

  • Census Population 132 million

  • Harry S Truman

  • Video games

  • Cable TV

  • Census Population 151million

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Barcode-woodland and silver

  • Dwight David Eisenhower

  • Vide Tape

  • Alaska

  • Hawaii

  • Census Population 179.3 million

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • JOhn Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • 23rd Amendment

  • Computer Mouse

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson

  • Buffalo Wings

  • 24th Amendment

  • Minicomputer

  • CD

  • 25th Amendment

  • Richard Milhous Nixon

  • Census Population 1970 - 203 million

  • Email

  • 26th Amendment

  • cell phone

  • Gerald Rudolpg Bush

  • James Earl Carter, Jr

  • Census Population 226.5 million

  • Ronald Wilson Regan

  • Nintendo Entertainment

  • George Herbert Walker Bush

  • Census Population 248.7

  • Period: to

    Persian Gulf War

  • 27th Amendment

  • William Jefferson Clinton

  • Census Population 281.4 million

  • George Walker Bush

  • US Invasion of Afghanistan

  • ipod

  • Invasion Of Iraq

  • Barack Hussein Obama 2009

  • Census Population 308.7 million