US History Timeline- Haileigh Gill

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of the America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    (It lasted until February 2, 1763)
  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    (It lasted until October 19, 1781)
  • The Constitutional Convention

    (It lasted until September 17, 1787)
  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The Invention of the Electric Light

  • The War of 1812

    (It lasted until February 18, 1815)
  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

    (It lasted until December 2, 1828)
  • The Trial of Tears

    (It lasted until March of 1839)
  • The Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837

    (It lasted until around 1843)
  • The Mexican-American War

    (It lasted until February 2, 1848)
  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    (It lasted until April 13, 1861)
  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at the Appomattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • The 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The 14th Amendment

  • The 15th Amendment

  • The Invention of the Telephone

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strike

    (It lasted until July 6, 1892)
  • The Pullman Strike

    (It lasted until July 20, 1894)
  • The Spanish-American War

    (It lasted until December 10, 1898)
  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

    (It lasted until March 3, 1909)
  • The Invention of the Airplane