US History Timeline

By calebbaker1
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    us history

  • Founding of James town

  • French and Indien war

    exact day unknown

  • Boston tea party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independance

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • The alien and sedition acts

    Actual dates unknown

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jacksons Election

  • The Trail Of Tears

    this act went through the 1850s

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    exact date unknown

  • the Panic Of 1837

    this lasted into the 1840s

  • The Mexican American War

    this date is an estimation

  • The Missouri compromise

  • The firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th amandment

  • Surrender at Appomattox court house

  • Abraham Lincolns Assasonation

  • 14th amendment

  • Andrew Johnson impeachment

  • 15th amendment

  • Standard Oil Trust

  • Homestead strike

  • Pullman strike

  • Spanish American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president