US History A Timeline - Ethan Cannon

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    By Christopher Columbus
  • Settlement of Jamestown

    In Virginia
  • French and Indian War

    Ended 1763
  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Beginning of Revolutionary War
  • Declaration of Independance

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Ended Oct 19, 1781
  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    By Eli Whitney
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    Ended Feb 18, 1815
  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

    Ended 1877
  • Invention of Telegraph

    By Samuel Morse etc.
  • Panic of 1837

    Ended 1843
  • Mexican-American War

    Ended Feb 2, 1848
  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

    Beginning of Civil War
  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment
  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    End of Civil War
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    By John Wilkes Booth
  • 14th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment
  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • 15th Amendment Passed

    Civil Rights Amendment
  • Invention of Telephone

    By Alexander Graham Bell
  • Invention of Electric Light

    By Thomas Edison etc.
  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Railroad Strike

  • Spanish-American War

    Ended Dec 10, 1898
  • Invention of Airplane

    By Wilbur and Orville Wright
  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected