US History A Timeline

By meldbitter
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • 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

  • Electric Light invented

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Invention of the telegraph

    1st message "What hath God wrought?" was sent

  • Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fining in Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Telephone Invention

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Airplane Invention