Period V Timeline Flashcards

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1846

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Beginning of the Mexican American War

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1848

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Seneca Falls Convention

California Gold Rush

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1850

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Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law

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1852

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Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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1854

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Ostend Manifesto

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party formed

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1856

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Beginning of “Bleeding Kansas”

The beating of Senator Charles Sumner

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1857

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Dred Scott v. Stanford Decision

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1859

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John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry arsenal

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1860

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Election of Lincoln

South Carolina secedes from US

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1861

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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

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1862

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Homestead Act

Morrill Land Grant Act

Second Confiscation Act

Habeas Corpus suspended

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1863

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Emancipation Proclamation

NYC Draft Riots

Gettysburg Address

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1864

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Reelection of Lincoln

Sherman’s March to the Sea

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1865

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Freedmen’s Bureau established

13th Amendment ratified

Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson assumes presidency

Souther state begin to pass black codes

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1866

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Civil Rights Act passes

Ku Klux Klan formed

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1867

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 passed, beginning of Congressional reconstruction

Tenure of Office Act

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1868

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Johnson impeached

14th Amendment ratified

Ulysses S. Grant elected

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1870

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15th Amendment ratified

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1875

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Civil Rights Act

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1876

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Disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) and Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat).

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1877

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Agreement ends Reconstruction; Hayes become president

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1845-1877

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American Expansion, Manifest Destiny