US History Timeline #1

By lukewinder05
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History Timeline #1

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian war begins

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independance

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts are passed

  • Lousiana Purchase

  • War of 1812 begins

  • War of 1812 ends

  • Missouri Compromize

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • Trail of tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican-American War begins

  • Mexican-American War ends

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclaimation is signed

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment is passed

  • Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated

  • 14th Amendment is passed

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 15th Amendment is passed

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Invention of the electric light bulb

  • Invention of the telegraph

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War begins

  • The Spanish-American War ends

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of the Airplane