Unit 5 (1844-1877) Flashcards
Texas Annexed
M:1840s
Texas Becomes a State
M:1840s
Mexican American War
1846
Wilmont Proviso
Bans Slavery in Territory Accquired thru Mex-Amer War
1846
Seneca Falls Convention; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (end of Mex-Amer War)
1848
Gold Found in CA; Free Soil Party Established
L:1840s
Compromise of 1850
1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
1852
Kansas Nebraska Act; Republican Party Established
1854
“Bleeding Kansas”; Caning of Charles Sumner
M:1850s
Dred Scott V. Sanford
1857
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
L:1850s
Lincoln Elected; SC Succeeds from Union
1860
Inauguration of Lincoln; rest of South succeeds from Union; Civil War begins; First Confiscation Act
1861
Civil War
1861-1865
Homestead Act; Morrill Land Grant Act
E:1860s
Emancipation Proclamation; NY City Draft Riot
1863
Lincoln reelected; Sherman’s March
M:1860s
13th Amendment; Freedman’s Bureau established; Lincoln Assassinated; Andrew Johnson assumes Presidency; Black Codes passed in South
M:1860s
Great Sioux War; Reconstruction Begins
1865
Civil Rights Act; Klu Klux Klan Established
1866
Reconstruction Act; Tenure of Office Act
1867
Johnson Impeached; 14th Amendment
L:1860s
15th Amendment
1870
Civil Rights Act
M:1870s
Disputed Presidential Election
M:1870s
Compromise of 1877; Reconstruction Ends
1877