Period V Timeline Flashcards
1846
Beginning of the Mexican American War
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Seneca Falls Convention
California Gold Rush
1850
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
1852
Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party formed
1856
Beginning of “Bleeding Kansas”
The beating of Senator Charles Sumner
1857
Dred Scott v. Stanford Decision
1859
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry arsenal
1860
Election of Lincoln
South Carolina secedes from US
1861
Inauguration of Lincoln
6 more states secede, all from the Deep South
Fight at Fort Sumter
4 more states, Upper South, secede
First Confiscation Act
1862
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Second Confiscation Act
Habeas Corpus suspended
1863
Emancipation Proclamation
NYC Draft Riots
Gettysburg Address
1864
Reelection of Lincoln
Sherman’s March to the Sea
1865
Freedmen’s Bureau established
13th Amendment ratified
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson assumes presidency
Souther state begin to pass black codes
1866
Civil Rights Act passes
Ku Klux Klan formed
1867
Reconstruction Acts of 1867 passed, beginning of Congressional reconstruction
Tenure of Office Act
1868
Johnson impeached
14th Amendment ratified
Ulysses S. Grant elected
1870
15th Amendment ratified
1875
Civil Rights Act
1876
Disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) and Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat).
1877
Agreement ends Reconstruction; Hayes become president
1845-1877
American Expansion, Manifest Destiny
