US HISTORY TIMELINE A

By cjlundgren08@gmail.com
  • Period: 1492 to

    US HISTORY EVENTS

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    1754–1763

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

    May 25 to September 17 1787

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

    18 June 1812 – 16 February 1815

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

    1830's, in 1838 he was able to demonstrate the working telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

    1830 to 1850

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Mexican-American War

    1846 to 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    1865 and 1870

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

    February 24, 1868 impeached by house of representatives

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

    1870 to 1911

  • Invention of the telephone

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

    April 25 to August 12 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

    December 17, 1903