US History Timeline

By Christian_A4563
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Jamestown Settlement

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedation Act

  • Electric Light

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Election

  • Trial of Tears

  • Telegraph

  • Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Period: to

    13-15 Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • Panic of 1873

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Telephone

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt Election