US history timeline. Qwynn Southwick

By Qwynn Southwick
  • Period: 1492 to

    Us history timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian war

    It ended in 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

    It ended in October 19 1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

    It was though May 15 - September 17, 1787

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The war of 1812

    It ended on February 18, 1815

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

    It ended in 1877

  • The Panic of 1837

    It ended in 1843

  • The Mexican-American war

    It ended in February 2, 1848

  • The compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    It ended one the 13

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Homestead strikes

  • The Pullman Strikes

  • The Spanish-American war

    It ended on December 10, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane