US History timeline

By The Last Potatoe Jager
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US History A timeline

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    Considered to be the end of the US Revolution though the war would go on 2 more years.

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • Begin of the Mexican-American War

  • Period: to

    The Mexican-American War

    The war with Mexico that made America a lot bigger than it was before adding the states of Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Portions of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana.

  • End of the Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    This lasted 2 days and marked the begin of the US Civil War.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse April 1865

    The End of the US Civil War.

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 13th Amendment ratified

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment ratified

  • 15th Amendments

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light.

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    The Pullman strike happening from May 11-20, 1894, and the Homestead strike happening on July 1 1892.

  • The Begin of the Spanish-American War

  • The End of the Spanish-American War

    It ended with Spain ceding some of it's territories to the US.

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

    A wonder to the world even to this day... Flight.