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1
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Invention of the Cotton Gin

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1793

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Fugitive Slave Act passed

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1793

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3
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U.S Slave Trade with Africa ends

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1808

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4
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The Missouri Compromise

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1820

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5
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Andrew Jackson elected president

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1829

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6
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Mexico bans American immigrants from entering Texas

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1830

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7
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Nat Turner’s revolt

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1831

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8
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William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator

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1831

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9
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National Anti-Slavery Society formed

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1833

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10
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Texas vs. Mexico at the Alamo ( Texan defeat)

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March 1836

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10
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The Battle of San Jacinto

Texas claims its independence

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April 1836

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11
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Elijah Lovejoy is murdered in Illinois,becomes the first abolistionist martyr

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1837

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13
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Polk sends troops north of the Rio Grande river to provoke war with Mexico
(to lead to the annexation of California and New Mexico)

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1846

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14
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Mexican troops attack 16 U.S. troops, Mexican-American war starts

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1846

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15
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The failed Wilmot proviso

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August 1846

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16
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James Polk becomes 11th president

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1845

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17
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo admits California and New Mexico to the USA

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1848

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18
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Mexican American war begins

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1846

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19
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Texas admitted to the union as a single state

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1845

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20
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Irish Potato Famine

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1845-6

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20
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12th president Zachary Taylor (Whig) elected president

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1849

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22
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13th president Millard Fillmore (Whig) elected president

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1850

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23
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Know-Nothings established

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1849

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25
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The Gadsden purchase

President Pierce’s attempts to purchase Mexican territory to assist the building of a railway to Southern Pacific

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1853

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26
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Harriet Beecher-Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1851

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27
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The Ostend Manifesto issued

If Spain refused to sell Cuba to America then they would declare war

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October 1854

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28
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Plate county defensive association formed by Senator Atchison
(Pledged to ensure that Kansas would become a slave state)

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1854

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29
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14th president Franklin Pierce (democrat) elected

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1854

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30
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Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company

formed to sponsor people to settle in the west

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1854-5

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31
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Kansas-Nebraska act

Divided Nebraska into two, leaving the two regions to decide on slavery

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1854

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33
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1st territorial legislature election in Kansas

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1855

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34
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Pottawamie creek massacre

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1856

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35
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Bleeding sumner

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1856

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36
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Sacking of Lawrence

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1856

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37
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Buchanan (Democrat) elected president

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November 1856

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38
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The lecompton pro-slavery constitution supported by Buchanan

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1857

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39
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The Dred Scott verdict rules the Missouri compromise line illegal and that Scott could not sue for his freedom

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1857

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40
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Democrat party splits

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1857

41
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The panic

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1857

42
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Mid-term elections: Lincoln - Douglas debates

A

1858

43
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John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry

A

October 1859

44
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Lincoln wins presidential election

A

1860

45
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South Carolina seceded

A

1860

46
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana seceded

A

1861

47
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Texas secedes from the Union

A

February 1861

48
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Kansas joins the Union as a free gift

A

January 1861

49
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Confederacy established at Montgomery

A

4th February 1861

50
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Battle of first Manassas (confed victory)

A

1861

51
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The Peninsula campaign headed by McClellan (confed win)

A

1862

52
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The seven days (confed victory)

A

June-July 1862

53
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Robert E.Lee takes command of Army of North Virginia

A

June 1862

54
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Battle of Shiloh ( Union win)

A

April 1862

55
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Second Manassas (confed win)

A

August 1862

56
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Battle of Antietam (Draw but confed retreat)

A

September 1862

57
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Emancipation proclamation takes effect

A

January 1863

58
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Battle of Chnacellorsville (confed win)

A

May 1863

59
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Battle of Gettysburg (union win)

A

July 1863

60
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Fall of Vicksburg (union win)

A

4th July 1863

61
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Riots in New York over conscription

A

July 1863

62
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Battle of chickamauga (union win) CHECK THIS

A

September 1863

63
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Battle of Chattanooga (union win)

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October 1863

64
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Congress passes a bill authorising equal pay, equipment, arms and health-care for African American troops

A

June1864

65
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Capture of Atlanta by General Sherman (union win)

A

September 1864

66
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Lincoln re-elected president

A

November 1864

67
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Sherman begins March through Georgia

A

November 1864

68
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Surrender at Appomattox

A

10th April 1865

69
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Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John w. Booth

A

April 1865

70
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Freedmen bureau set up

A

March 1865

71
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Lincoln’s proclamation of the Ten percent plan

A

December 1863

72
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Wade-Davis bill proposed but vetoed by Lincoln

A

1864

73
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Andrew Johnson becomes president

A

April 1865

74
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Black delegation (led by Frederick Douglass) meets Andrew Johnson at White House to advocate black suffrage. Johnson expresses opposition, ends in controversy

A

February 1866

75
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Civil Rights Act passed

A

April 1866

76
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46 African -Americans killed in race riots in Memphis, Tennessee by white civilians and police.
90 homes, 12 schools, 4 churches burnt down.

A

May 1866

77
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First meeting of Ku Klux Klan

A

1866

78
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Race riots in New Orleans

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July 1866

79
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Military Reconstruction Act

A

March 1867

80
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14th Amendment ratified to the constitution, citizenship to all Americans

A

1868

81
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Command of the Army Act

A

1867

82
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Tenure of Office Act

A

1867

83
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Impeachment of Johnson failed

A

February 1868

84
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Ulysses S. Grant elected president

A

November 1868

85
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300 blacks killed in Opelousas Massacre, Louisiana

A

September 1868

86
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Fifteenth amendment ratified

A

1870

87
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Pinckney B.S Pinchback elected first black governor (Louisiana)

A

1872

88
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Congress approves second Civil Rights Act that guarantees equal rights to blacks in public accommodations and jury duty

A

March 1875

89
Q

The slaughterhouse case declares 14th amendment to only protect national rights

A

1873

90
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Ku klux klan Act implemented

A

1871

91
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Ku Klux Klan Act and 1875 Civil rights act deemed unconstitutional

A

1883

92
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Disputed presidential election between Hayes and Tilden

A

1876

93
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Presidential compromise

A

1877

94
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The crittenden compromise rejected

A

December 1860

95
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First shots fired at Fort Sumter

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12th April 1861

96
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Jefferson Davis elected provisional president

A

9th February 1861

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