US History Timeline (Fall 2017)

By BrooklynK
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    from 1754 - 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence is Approved

  • Battle of Yorktown

    from Sept 28 – Oct 19

  • The Constitutional Convention

    from 1787 - 1789

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    from June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

  • Telegraph is Invented

  • The Panic of 1837

    from 1837 -1843

  • The Trail of Tears

    from 1838 - 1850 (ish)

  • Mexican-American War

    from April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    from April 12 – April 14

  • Emancipation Proclamation is Put Into Effect

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • 13th Amendment is Ratified

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 14th Amendment is Ratified

  • 15th Amendment is Ratified

  • Telephone is Invented

  • Electric Light is Invented

  • The Standard Oil Trust Agreement is Made

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish American War

    from April - August

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • First Successful Powered Aircraft Flight