Key Dates Flashcards
Invention of the Cotton Gin
1793
Fugitive Slave Act passed
1793
U.S Slave Trade with Africa ends
1808
The Missouri Compromise
1820
Andrew Jackson elected president
1829
Mexico bans American immigrants from entering Texas
1830
Nat Turner’s revolt
1831
William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
1831
National Anti-Slavery Society formed
1833
Texas vs. Mexico at the Alamo ( Texan defeat)
March 1836
The Battle of San Jacinto
Texas claims its independence
April 1836
Elijah Lovejoy is murdered in Illinois,becomes the first abolistionist martyr
1837
Polk sends troops north of the Rio Grande river to provoke war with Mexico
(to lead to the annexation of California and New Mexico)
1846
Mexican troops attack 16 U.S. troops, Mexican-American war starts
1846
The failed Wilmot proviso
August 1846
James Polk becomes 11th president
1845
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo admits California and New Mexico to the USA
1848
Mexican American war begins
1846
Texas admitted to the union as a single state
1845
Irish Potato Famine
1845-6
12th president Zachary Taylor (Whig) elected president
1849
13th president Millard Fillmore (Whig) elected president
1850
Know-Nothings established
1849
The Gadsden purchase
President Pierce’s attempts to purchase Mexican territory to assist the building of a railway to Southern Pacific
1853
Harriet Beecher-Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1851
The Ostend Manifesto issued
If Spain refused to sell Cuba to America then they would declare war
October 1854
Plate county defensive association formed by Senator Atchison
(Pledged to ensure that Kansas would become a slave state)
1854
14th president Franklin Pierce (democrat) elected
1854
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company
formed to sponsor people to settle in the west
1854-5
Kansas-Nebraska act
Divided Nebraska into two, leaving the two regions to decide on slavery
1854
1st territorial legislature election in Kansas
1855
Pottawamie creek massacre
1856
Bleeding sumner
1856
Sacking of Lawrence
1856
Buchanan (Democrat) elected president
November 1856
The lecompton pro-slavery constitution supported by Buchanan
1857
The Dred Scott verdict rules the Missouri compromise line illegal and that Scott could not sue for his freedom
1857
Democrat party splits
1857
The panic
1857
Mid-term elections: Lincoln - Douglas debates
1858
John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry
October 1859
Lincoln wins presidential election
1860
South Carolina seceded
1860
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana seceded
1861
Texas secedes from the Union
February 1861
Kansas joins the Union as a free gift
January 1861
Confederacy established at Montgomery
4th February 1861
Battle of first Manassas (confed victory)
1861
The Peninsula campaign headed by McClellan (confed win)
1862
The seven days (confed victory)
June-July 1862
Robert E.Lee takes command of Army of North Virginia
June 1862
Battle of Shiloh ( Union win)
April 1862
Second Manassas (confed win)
August 1862
Battle of Antietam (Draw but confed retreat)
September 1862
Emancipation proclamation takes effect
January 1863
Battle of Chnacellorsville (confed win)
May 1863
Battle of Gettysburg (union win)
July 1863
Fall of Vicksburg (union win)
4th July 1863
Riots in New York over conscription
July 1863
Battle of chickamauga (union win) CHECK THIS
September 1863
Battle of Chattanooga (union win)
October 1863
Congress passes a bill authorising equal pay, equipment, arms and health-care for African American troops
June1864
Capture of Atlanta by General Sherman (union win)
September 1864
Lincoln re-elected president
November 1864
Sherman begins March through Georgia
November 1864
Surrender at Appomattox
10th April 1865
Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John w. Booth
April 1865
Freedmen bureau set up
March 1865
Lincoln’s proclamation of the Ten percent plan
December 1863
Wade-Davis bill proposed but vetoed by Lincoln
1864
Andrew Johnson becomes president
April 1865
Black delegation (led by Frederick Douglass) meets Andrew Johnson at White House to advocate black suffrage. Johnson expresses opposition, ends in controversy
February 1866
Civil Rights Act passed
April 1866
46 African -Americans killed in race riots in Memphis, Tennessee by white civilians and police.
90 homes, 12 schools, 4 churches burnt down.
May 1866
First meeting of Ku Klux Klan
1866
Race riots in New Orleans
July 1866
Military Reconstruction Act
March 1867
14th Amendment ratified to the constitution, citizenship to all Americans
1868
Command of the Army Act
1867
Tenure of Office Act
1867
Impeachment of Johnson failed
February 1868
Ulysses S. Grant elected president
November 1868
300 blacks killed in Opelousas Massacre, Louisiana
September 1868
Fifteenth amendment ratified
1870
Pinckney B.S Pinchback elected first black governor (Louisiana)
1872
Congress approves second Civil Rights Act that guarantees equal rights to blacks in public accommodations and jury duty
March 1875
The slaughterhouse case declares 14th amendment to only protect national rights
1873
Ku klux klan Act implemented
1871
Ku Klux Klan Act and 1875 Civil rights act deemed unconstitutional
1883
Disputed presidential election between Hayes and Tilden
1876
Presidential compromise
1877
The crittenden compromise rejected
December 1860
First shots fired at Fort Sumter
12th April 1861
Jefferson Davis elected provisional president
9th February 1861
