Us History Timeline

By jackrush34
  • 1492

    he Discovery of America by Columbus 1492

  • Period: 1492 to

    Us History Timeline Rush, Jack

  • The Settlement of Jamestown 1607

  • The French and Indian War 1754

  • The Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773

  • he Battle of Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775,

  • The Declaration of Independence 1776

  • The Battle of Yorktown September 28, 1781

  • The Constitutional Convention September 17, 1787

  • The invention of the cotton gin 1798

  • the Alien and Sedition Acts April 4, 1802

  • The Louisiana Purchase 1803

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise 1820

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election 1828

  • The Trail of Tears 1830

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph May 24, 1844

  • The Mexican-American War April 1846

  • The invention of the electric light 1847

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861,

  • The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments 31 January 1865

  • Assasination of Abraham Lincoln April 15, 1865

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment February 24, 1868

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1870

  • the invention of the telephone, June 1875

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes July 1892

  • The Spanish-American War April 21 – August 13, 1898

  • The invention of the airplane

    The Wright Brothers make the first working airplane.

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president March 4, 1909.