Presidential Chronology- Polk-Lincoln Flashcards
John O’Sullivan coins phrase “Manifest Destiny”
James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
Frederick Douglass
“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
James K. Polk
Western Expansion
James K. Polk
Mass Irish immigration due to famine
James K. Polk
Mexico rejects John Slidell’s mission
James K. Polk
Oregon territory “54, 40 or fight” compromise for the 49th parallel
James K. Polk
Wilmont Proviso
James K. Polk
Mexican War
James K. Polk
Bear Flag Republic in California
James K. Polk
Lewis Cass’s principle of “Popular Sovereignty”
James K. Polk
Wisconsin and Iowa admitted as free states
James K. Polk
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James K. Polk
Anti-Slavery Whigs & Democrats from Free Soil Party organized
James K. Polk
Discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California
James K. Polk
Seneca Falls Convention
James K. Polk
Gold Rush
Zachary Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience”
Zachary Taylor
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Zachary Taylor
Introduction of the Compromise of 1850 -personally opposed compromise
Zachary Taylor
Nashville Convention
Zachary Taylor
Omnibus Bill -Henry Clay
Zachary Taylor
Know-Nothing Party Emerges
Millard Fillmore
Compromise of 1850
- California enters Union as a free state
- New Mexico and Utah territories organized based on popular sovereignty
- No slave trade in Washington D. C.
- New Mexico/Texas border dispute settled in favor of New Mexico
- Texas given $10 million to compromise for border dispute with New Mexico
- Strict Fugitive Slave Law
Millard Fillmore
Herman Melville
“Moby Dick”
Millard Fillmore
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Millard Fillmore
Cumberland Road completed
Millard Fillmore
Underground Railroad
Franklin Pierce
Japan opened to World Trade by Commodore Matthew Perry
Franklin Pierce
Gadsden Purchase
Franklin Pierce
Ostend Manifesto
Franklin Pierce
Henry David Thoreau
“Walden”
Franklin Pierce
Know-Nothing Party
Franklin Pierce
Republican Party formed
Franklin Pierce
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Franklin Pierce
Border Ruffians
Franklin Pierce
Walt Whitman
“Leaves of Grass”
Franklin Pierce
Topeka Constitution
Franklin Pierce
Pottawatomie Massacre
Franklin Pierce
“Sack” of Lawrence
Franklin Pierce
Bleeding Kansas
Franklin Pierce
Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner clash
Franklin Pierce
Dred Scott
James Buchanan
Panic of 1857
James Buchanan
Hinton Helper
“Impending Crisis in the South”
James Buchanan
Lecompton Constitution
James Buchanan
First transatlantic cable (1858); permanent cable (1866)
James Buchanan
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
James Buchanan
Harper’s Ferry
James Buchanan
Comstock Lode
James Buchanan
Charles Darwin
“On the Origin of Species”
James Buchanan
First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
South Carolina secession
James Buchanan
Pony Express established
James Buchanan
Montgomery Convention; Confederate States of America
James Buchanan
Crittenden Compromise fails
James Buchanan
Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
Trent Affair
Abraham Lincoln
U. S. Sanitary Commission created
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Monitor and Merrimac
Abraham Lincoln
Homestead Act
Abraham Lincoln
Morrill Land Grant Act
Abraham Lincoln
Pacific Railways Act
Abraham Lincoln
Antietam
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
Habeus Corpus suspended nationwide
Abraham Lincoln
National Bank Act
Abraham Lincoln
Enrollment Act— Draft
Abraham Lincoln
Vicksburg
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
New York Draft Riots
Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction “10% Plan”
Abraham Lincoln
Wade Davis Bill (pocket veto)
Abraham Lincoln
Sherman’s March
Abraham Lincoln
Sand Creek Massacre
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee Surrenders at the Appomattox Court House
Abraham Lincoln
Assassinated April 14, 1865- John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction Completed.
Andrew Johnson
13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson
Freedman Bureau
Andrew Johnson
Black Codes implemented in the South.
Andrew Johnson
“Ex Parte Milligan”
Andrew Johnson
National Labor Union formed.
Andrew Johnson
Civil Rights Act
Andrew Johnson
KKK formed.
Andrew Johnson
Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
Andrew Johnson
Seward’s Folly (Alaska)
Andrew Johnson
Cattle drives begin
Andrew Johnson
Grange
Andrew Johnson
Smaller Indian reservations adopted.
Andrew Johnson
Fort Laramie Treaty
Andrew Johnson
14th Amendment
Andrew Johnson
Knights of Labor founded.
Andrew Johnson
Impeachment Trial
Andrew Johnson
Transcontinental Railroad completed.
Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
Black Friday- Stock Market Crash.
Ulysses S. Grant
15th Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant
Amnesty Act for ex-Confederates.
Ulysses S. Grant
Enforcement Acts
Ulysses S. Grant
Yellowstone National Park
Ulysses S. Grant
Anthony Comstock, Society for the Suppression of Vice
Ulysses S. Grant
Panic of 1873 (Depression lasts until 1879)
Ulysses S. Grant
Comstock Law
Ulysses S. Grant
Mark Twain, “Gilded Age”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Slaughterhouse Cases”
Ulysses S. Grant
Political Scandals
Ulysses S. Grant
Fisk and Gould corner the gold market.
Ulysses S. Grant
Credit Mobilier
Ulysses S. Grant
Whiskey Ring
Ulysses S. Grant
Belknap Scandal (Secretary of War accepted bribes from Indian agents)
Ulysses S. Grant
Gold discovered in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Ulysses S. Grant
WCTU, Women Christian Temperance Union
Ulysses S. Grant
Civil Rights Act
Ulysses S. Grant
Specie Resumption Act
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Little Bighorn.
Ulysses S. Grant
National League of Baseball organized.
Ulysses S. Grant
Telephone patented, Alexander Graham Bell
Ulysses S. Grant
Compromise of 1877
Ulysses S. Grant
Phonograph, Thomas Edison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Railroad strike
Rutherford B. Hayes
Compromise of 1877 (Wormley Agreement)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Mann v. Illinois
Rutherford B. Hayes
Bland- Allison Act
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hebert George, “Progress and Poverty”
Rutherford B. Hayes
Incandescent Lamp
Rutherford B. Hayes
Salvation Army in U.S.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Assassinated 1881
James A. Garfield
American Red Cross founded.
James A. Garfield
Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Century of Dishonor”
James A. Garfield
Theodore Roosevelt, “Winning of the West”
James A. Garfield
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chester Arthur
Standard Oil Trust
Chester Arthur
First electric power station opens in New York City.
Chester Arthur
Tariff Act of 1883
Chester Arthur
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chester Arthur
Lester Frank Ward, “Dynamic Sociology”
Chester Arthur
Mark Twain, “Huck Finn”
Chester Arthur
NCFA, National Colored Farmers Alliance
Grover Cleveland
Reduced protective tariffs and cut pensions for veterans.
Grover Cleveland
Ghost Dance
Grover Cleveland
Skyscraper, Chicago
Grover Cleveland
American Federation of Labor created (AFL)
Grover Cleveland
Haymarket Riot
Grover Cleveland
Dedication of the Statue of Liberty
Grover Cleveland
Wabash v. Illinois
Grover Cleveland
Dawes Act
Grover Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Act (Commission) created
Grover Cleveland
Edward Bellamy, “Looking Backward”
Grover Cleveland