American History 1

Prehistory

1400 BCE

The Ancestors of the Native Americans crossed the Bering into North America an estimated 15,000-20,000 years ago

Columbus reaches the Bahamas

1492

Jamestown

1607

Plymouth

1620

Stamp Tax

1675

King Phillip's War

Period: 1675 to 1676

Boston Tea party

1770

Boston massacre

1770

1st Continental Congress

1774

Battle of Lexington and Concord

1775

Revolutionary War

Period: 1775 to 1783

Declaration of Independence

1776

United States Constitution signed

1787

Lewis and Clark expedition

Period: 1804 to 1806

Missouri Compromise

1820

Indian Removal

Period: 1825 to 1850

Trail of Tears

Period: 1831 to 1838

Mexican War

Period: 1846 to 1848

Gold Rush Begins

1849

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

American Civil War

Period: 1861 to 1865

Homesteading the plains

Period: 1862 to 1879

Reconstruction

Period: 1865 to 1877

Cattle drives in Great Plains

Period: 1866 to 1886

Alaska purchased

1867

First transcontinental railroad

1869

Suez Canal opens

1869

Carnegie builds steel mill

1873

Plain Wars

Period: 1874 to 1881

First telephone conversation

1876

Alexandar Graham Bell

Edison invents electric light bulb

1878

Electricity for cities

Period: 1880 to 1890

Jim Crow Laws created

Period: 1883 to 1914

The Panic of 1893

1893

Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

1898

U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands

1898

Spanish-American War

1898

United States has become a world power

1900

U.S. takes over Panama Canal construction

1901