17-24 Flashcards
Canadian rebellion and Caroline incident
1837
Aroostook War breaks out
1839
antislavery Liberty party organized
1840
Harrison dies
1841
webster-ashburton treaty
1842
US annexes texas
1845
walker tariff
1846
independent treasury restored
1846
us settles oregon dispute with brit
1846
us and mex clash over texas boundary
1846
kearny takes santa fe
1846
fremont conquers california
1846
wilmot proviso passes house of representatives
1846
mexican war
1846-1848
battle of buena vista
1847
scott takes mex city
1847
treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
1848
treaty of wanghia
1844
brit seize port of san juan del norte in nicaragua
1848
california gold rush
1849
compromise of 1850 including FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
1850
clayton-bulwer treaty
1850
australian gold rush
1851
gadsden purchase
1852
commodore perry opens japan
1854
ostend manifesto
1854
kansas-nebraska act
1854
republican party organized
1854
william walker becomes pres of nicaragua and legalizes slavery
1856
meiji restoration in japan
1868
uncle tom’s cabin published
1852
crimean war in russia
1853-1856
sumner beaten by brooks in senate chamber
1856
brown’s pottawatomie massacre
1856
civil war in “bleeding kansas”
1856-1861
the impending crisis of the south published
1857
lincoln-douglas debates
1858
brown raids harpers ferry
1859
sc secedes from union
1860
crittenden compromise fails
1860
7 seceding states form confederate states of am
1861
fort sumter fired on
1861
4 upper south states secede
1861
morrill tariff act passed
1861
trent affair
1861
lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
1861
confed enacts conscription
1862
homestead act
1862
alabama raids northern shipping
1862-1864
union enacts conscription
1863
nyc draft riots
1863
national banking system est
1863
napoleon iii installs archduke maximilian as emperor of mex
1863-1864
alabama sunk by union warship
1864
first battle of bull run
1861
grant takes fort henry and fort donelson
1862
battle of shiloh
1862
mcclellan’s peninsula campaign
1862
7 days’ battles
1862
2nd battle of bull run
1862
naval battle of merrimack and monitor
1862
battle of antietam
1862
preliminary emancipation proclamation
1862
battle of fredericksurg
1862
northern army seizes new orleans
1862
final emancipation proclamation
1863
battle of chancellorsville
1863
battle of gettysburg
1863
fall of vicksburg
1863
fall of port hudson
1863
sherman’s march through georgia
1864
grant’s wilderness campaign
1864
battle of cold harbor
1864
hampton roads conference
1865
lee surrenders to grant at appomattox
1865
13th amendment ratified
1865
reform bill expands brit electorate
1867
lincoln announces 10% reconstruction plan
1863
lincoln vetoes wade-davis bill
1864
johnson issues reconstruction proclamation
1865
congress refuses to seat southern congressman
1865
freedman’s bureau est
1865
southern states pass black codes
1865
congress passes civil rights bill over johnson’s veto
1866
14th amendment
1866
ex parte milligan case
1866
kkk founded
1866
reconstruction act
1867
tenure of office act
1867
us purchases alaska from russia
1867
johnson impeached and acquitted
1868
johnson pardons confed leaders
1868
15th amendment
1870
force acts
1870-1871
freedmen’s bureau ended
1872
reconstruction ends
1877
fisk and gould corner gold market
1869
tweed scandal in ny
1871
credit mobilier scandal exposed
1872
liberal repubs break with grant
1872
whiskey ring scandal
1875
resumption act
1875
hayes-tilden election standoff and crisis
1876
railroad strikes paralyze nation
1877
garfield assassinated
1881
chinese exclusion act
1882
civil rights cases
1883
pendleton act sets up civil service commission
1883
“billion dollar” congress
1890
mckinley tariff act
1890
sherman silver purchase act
1890
homestead steel strike
1892
coeur d’alene (idaho) silver miners’ strike
1892
repubs regain house of rep
1893
jp morgan’s banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to us gov
1895
plessy vs ferguson
1896
congress authorized transcontinental railroad
1862
national labor union organized
1866
transcontinental railroad joined near ogden, utah
1869
knights of labor organized
1869
suez canal completed
1869
standard oil company organized
1870
bell invents telephone
1876
edison invents electric light
1879
haymarket square bombing
1886
wabash case
1886
am fed of labor founded
1886
interstate commerce act
1887
sherman anti-trust act
1890
us steel corporation formed
1901