US History A Timeline :)

By IvyW
  • 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

    Signed by most members during this year

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin Invented

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Panic of 1837

    It lasted until the early 40s of the nineteenth century.

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment is Passed

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated

  • 14th Amendment is Passed

  • Andrew Johnson is Impeached

  • 15th Amendment is Passed

  • Telephone is Invented

  • Electric Light Invented

  • Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

    (1st term in office)

  • Airplane is Invented