Ch. 17-24 Flashcards
0
Q
Aroostook War breaks out over Maine boundary
A
1839
1
Q
Canadian rebellion and Caroline incident
A
1837
2
Q
Antislavery Liberty party organized
A
1840
3
Q
Harrison dies after four weeks in office
A
1841
4
Q
Tyler assumes presidency
A
1841
5
Q
Webster-Ashburton treaty
A
1842
6
Q
Polk defeats Clay in “Manifest Destiny” election
A
1844
7
Q
United States annexes Texas
A
1845
8
Q
Walker Tariff
A
1846
9
Q
Independent treasury restored
A
1846
10
Q
United States settles Oregon dispute with Britain
A
1846
11
Q
United States and Mexico clash over Texas boundary
A
1846
12
Q
Kearny takes Santa Fe
A
1846
13
Q
Frémont conquers California
A
1846
14
Q
Wilmot Proviso passes House of Representatives
A
1846
15
Q
Mexican War
A
1846-1848
16
Q
Battle of Buena Vista
A
1847
17
Q
Scott takes Mexico City
A
1847
18
Q
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A
1848
19
Q
Caleb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China
A
1844
20
Q
British seize port of San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua
A
1848
21
Q
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War
A
1848
22
Q
Taylor defeats Cass and Van Buren for presidency
A
1848
23
Q
California gold rush
A
1849
24
Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor's death
1850
25
Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law
1850
26
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain
1850
27
Australian gold rush
1851
28
Pierce defeats Scott for presidency
1852
29
Gadsden Purchase from Mexico
1853
30
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1854
31
Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba
1854
32
Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise of 1820
1854
33
Republican Party organized & formed
1854
34
William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery
1856
35
Meiji Restoration in Japan
1868
36
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
37
Crimean War in Russia
1853-1856
38
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
39
Buchanan defeats Frémont and Fillmore for presidency
1856
40
Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber
1856
41
Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
1856
42
Civil war in "bleeding Kansas"
1856-1861
43
Dred Scott decision
1857
44
Lecompton Constitution rejected
1857
45
Panic of 1857
your mom
46
Tariff of 1857
big butts
47
Hinton R. Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South
1857
48
Lincoln-Douglas debates
1858
49
Brown raids Harper's Ferry
1859
50
Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency
1860
51
South Carolina secedes from Union
1860
52
Crittenden Compromise fails
1860
53
Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America
1861
54
Confederate government formed
1861
55
Lincoln takes office (March 4)
1861
56
Fort Sumter fired on (April 12)
1861
57
Four upper South states secede (April-June)
1861
58
Morrilln Tariff Act passed
1861
59
Trent affair
1861
60
Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
1861
61
Confederacy enacts conscription
1862
62
Homestead Act
1862
63
Alabama raids Northern shipping
1862-1864
64
Union enacts conscription
1863
65
New York City draft riots
1863
66
National Banking System established
1863
67
Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximillian as emperor of Mexico
1863-1864
68
Alabama sunk by Union warship
1864
69
First Battle of Bull Run
1861
70
Grant takes Fort Henry me Fort Donelson
1862
71
Battle or Shiloh
1862
72
McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
1862
73
Seven Day's battles
1862
74
Second Battle of Bull Run
1862
75
Naval battle of Merrimack (Virginia) and Monitor
1862
76
Battle of Anteitam
1862
77
Preliminary Emancipation Proclomation
1862
78
Battle of Fredericksburg
1862
79
Northern army seizes New Orleans
1862
80
Final Emancipation Proclomation
1863
81
Battle of Chancellorsville
1863
82
Battle of Gettysburg
1863
83
Fall of Vicksburg
1863
84
Fall of Port Hudson
1863
85
Sherman's march through Georgia
1864
86
Grant's Wilderness Campaign
1864
87
Battle of Cold Harbor
1864
88
Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency
1864
89
Hampton Roads Conference
1865
90
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
1865
91
Lincoln assassinated
1865
92
13th Amendment ratified
1865
93
Reform Bill expands British electorate
1867
94
Lincoln announces "10 Percent" Reconstruction plan
1863
95
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
1864
96
Johnson issues Reconstruction proclamation
1865
97
Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen
1865
98
Freedmen's Bureau established
1865
99
Southern states pass Black Codes
1865
100
Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson's veto
1866
101
Congress passes 14th amendment
1866
102
Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election
1866
103
Ex parte Milligan case
1866
104
KKK founded
1866
105
Reconstruction Act
1867
106
Tenure of Office act
1867
107
United States purchases Alaska from Russia
1867
108
Johnson impeached and acquitted
1868
109
Johnson pardons Confederate leaders
1868
110
15th amendment ratified
1870
111
Force Acts
1870-1871
112
Freedmen's Bureau ends
1877
113
Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
1868
114
Fisk and Gould corner gold market
1869
115
Tweed scandal in New York
1871
116
Crédit Mobilier scandal exposed
1872
117
Liberal Republicans break with Grant
1872
118
Grant defeats Greeley for presidency
1872
119
Panic of 1873
-5000000000000000000000 B.C.E.
120
Whiskey Ring scandal
1875
121
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Conrad Birdie
122
Resumption Act
1875
123
Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis
1876
124
Compromise of 1877
I did not have sexual relations with that woman
125
Reconstruction ends
1877
126
Railroad strikes paralyze nation
1877
127
Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency
1880
128
Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency
1881
129
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
130
Civil Rights Cases
1883
131
Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commission
1883
132
Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency
1884
133
Harrison defeats Cleveland for presidency
1888
134
Billion-Dollar Congress
1890
135
McKinley Tariff Act
1890
136
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893)
1890
137
Homestead steel strike
1892
138
Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) silver miner's stike
1892
139
People's part candidate James B. Weaver wins 22 electoral votes
1892
140
Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency
1892
141
Depression of 1893 begins
hail hydra
142
Republicans regain House of Representatives
1893
143
J. P. Morgan's banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government
1895
144
Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes "separate but equal" doctrine
1896
145
Congress authorizes transcontinental railroad
1862
146
National Labor Union organized
1866
147
First working transatlantic telegraph cable
1866
148
Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogden, Utah
1869
149
Knights of Labor organized
1869
150
Suez Canal completed
1869
151
Standard Oil Company organized
1870
152
Bell invents telephone
1876
153
Edison invents electric light
1879
154
Haymarket Square bombing
1866
155
Wabash case
1886
156
American Federation of Labor formed
1886
157
Interstate Commerce Acr
1887
158
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1890
159
United States Steel Corporation formed
1901
