Dates Flashcards
When was the Louisiana land purchase?
1803
When did the USA declare the slave trade illegal?
1808
When was the Missouri compromise?
1820
When was the Erie Canal opened?
1825
When was the Indian removal act?
1830
When was Nat Turner’s revolt?
1831
When was the National anti-slavery society formed?
1833
When did Texas win independence from Mexico?
1836
When was the trail of tears?
1838
When was the Preemption act?
1841
When did Texas join the USA?
1845
When was Polk in power? What party was he?
44-48
Democrat
When was the Wilmot proviso?
1846
When was the Mexican war?
1846-48
When was the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
1848
When was Taylor in power?
Whig Taylor 48-50
Dies
President Fillmore 50-52
When was the 1850 compromise???? ;)
Who proposed it, who helped get it through
1850!
Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas
When was President Pierce in power?
What party was he?
52-56
Democrat
When was the Kansas Nebraska act?
1854
When was the sack of Lawrence?
1856
When was bleeding Sumner?
1856
When was Buchanan president?
What party?
1856-1860
Democrat
When was the Dred Scott decision?
1857
When does Buchanan support the Lecompton constitution?
1857
When was Pike’s peak?
1858
When was Comstock Lode discovered?
1859
When was John Brown’s raid?
1859
When is Lincoln president?
1860-65
When is Lincoln inaugurated?
1861
When does South Carolina secede?
1860
When was Fort Sumter?
1861
When is the Confederacy established?
1861
When does the Sioux war break out in Minnesota?
1862
When was the civil war?
1861-65
When was the Homestead Act?
1862
When was the Pacific Railroad Act?
1862
When was the Morril Land Grant Act?
1862
When was the Sank Creek massacre?
1864
When was the Transcontinental railway completed?
1869
When was the battle of Little Bighorn?
1876
When was the Dawes Act?
1887
When does the Ghost dance religion begin and the battle of wonder knee happen?
1890
When was the Trent affair?
1861
When is the battle of Gettysburg?
1862
When is the Laird Ram crisis?
1863
When does the confederacy introduce conscription?
1862
When are the New York draft riots?
1863
When does Grant become general in chief?
1864
When is Lincoln re-elected?
1864
When does Lee surrender?
1865
At Appotomax
Medicine Lodge treaty?
1867
When was the transcontinental telegraph line completed?
1861
When was the Gadsden purchase?
1854
When was the famous California gold strike?
1849
When was economic panic?
1819
How many miles of canal was there in 1840?
300,000 miles
When was the Burns affair?
1854
Anger over the fugitive slave act
How much land was lost as a result of the Dawes Act?
60 million acres
How many Indians died in the Indian wars?
8500
When was the medicine Lodge treaty?
1867
In how many states did Lincoln get no votes?
9
