US History

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    1754-1763
  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Ended October 19, 1781
  • Constitutional Convention

    Ended September 17, 1787
  • Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Invention of the Electric Light

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    Ended February 18, 1815
  • Missouri Compromise

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    to 1835
  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Panic of 1837

    to 1843
  • Cherokee Trail of Tears

    to 1839
  • Mexican American War

    Ended Fubruary 2nd, 1848
  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

    Ended the next day.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Standard Oil Company and Trust

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

    13th (1865), 14th (1868), 15th (1870)
  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Invention of Telephone

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    The Pullman Strike was in 1894
  • Spanish-American War

    Ended August 13th, 1898
  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Invention of Airplane