2.7 Timeline

By Lambert Beswayan

  • Missouri Compromise

    1. Congress passed a law stating the Missouri was to be made a slave state within the U.S.
    2. However, slavery was to be forbidden in states north of the 36 degree parallel in the Louisiana Purchase
    3. This was important, because it set a precedent for how southern and northern states could compete in power and increased the rising tension between them

  • Monroe Doctrine

    1. Made by James Monroe, stating that any colonial intervention in North or South America by European countries would be treated as a hostility towards the U.S.
    2. The U.S. was to intervene if any American land was being threatened with colonization

  • Pre-Emption Act

    1. Was made to appease Westerners living with squatters on their land
    2. Made it possible so that pioneers could "preempt" land and buy up to 160 acres of government owned land for lower prices, until it was sold for a price to the public

  • Battle of the Alamo

    1. An important battle concerning the Texans and Americans and the Mexicans during the Texan Revolution

  • Panic of 1837

    1. Was a financial crisis in the United States from a recession
    2. Unemployment rose while profits and wages declined
    3. President Jackson's Specie Circular and other policies added to this panic

  • Trail of Tears

    1. Was a central part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830
    2. Caused the Cherokee nation to give up their native lands east of Mississippi River and move to reservations
    3. Was a devastating journey, earning the name "Trail of Tears"

  • Sutter's Fort

    1. Was an agricultural and trade colony built by John Sutter
    2. Was made for the purpose of the California gold rush

  • US-Mexican War

    1. War between Mexico and United States after Texan revolution
    2. U.S. acquired more than 500,000 square miles of territory from Mexico in treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    3. Shaped international/domestic relations with Mexico in history

  • Bear Flag Revolt

    1. American immigrants rebelled against the local Mexican government in California and made the independent California Republic
    2. Immigrants did not trust the Mexican government and its corrupt leaders

  • Compromise of 1850

    -Was a compromise of five different bills passed by Congress to appease the Northern and Southern states in their disagreements concerning free and slave states joining the country
    -California admitted into Union as free state
    -Fugitive Slave Law passed
    -Missouri Compromise line maintained
    -Utah territory and New Mexico could decide whether to have slaves

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    -Was made to appease Southern states in the Compromise of 1850
    -Made it so Northerners were obligated to return any slaves having escaped to the north back to their rightful owners
    -was not enforced much by local governments

  • Bleeding Kansas

    -Was a series of political meetings and confrontations between pro-slavery members and anti-slavery "Free-staters" debating over whether Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free or slave state
    -Eventually admitted into the Union as a free state in 1861
    -Violent confrontations and murders were planned or carried out, combined with fights among passionate politicians

  • Gadsden Purchase

    -Was a purchase of territory obtaining a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico between Mexico and the United States
    -Made under Franklin Pierce's presidency
    -Was obtained for increased trade opportunities with a desired railway route

  • Dred Scott Decision

    -Enslaved African American Dred Scott attempted to sue for his freedom to get away from a life of slavery
    -Supreme Court denied his request, deeming an Act of Congress unconstitutional
    -Decided that, since his ancestors were sold and brought to America as slaves, he could not sue for freedom
    -Brought anti-slavery sentiments into play in the North, esp. in most Republicans

  • Harper's Ferry

    -John Brown, an abolitionist, led a slave revolt to take over a U.S. state arsenal in Virginia with 21 men
    -Was stopped by Colonel Robert E. Lee
    -Did not grant much, if any, minor success

  • South Carolina Secession From Union

    -South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States

  • Mississippi Secession From Union

    -A Declaration of the Immediate causes which induce and justify the Secession of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

  • Florida Secession From Union

    -Florida delegates voted to secede from the U.S. Florida became one of the six original Southern states to form the Confederate States of America

  • Alabama Secession From Union

    -The Alabama Secession Convention passes an Ordinance of Secession, declaring Alabama a "Sovereign and Independent State."

  • Georgia Secession From Union

    -The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty
    -The convention met in Milledgeville from January 16 to March 23, 1861
    -voted to not only secede the state from the Union but also created Georgia's first new constitution since 1798.

  • Louisiana Secession From Union

  • Texas Secession From Union

  • American Civil War

    -Was a war between Northern Union and Southern Confederacy
    -Southerners wished to protect their right to slavery and their traditional way of life, economy, etc.
    -Northerners wished to abolish slavery and end the power struggle between south in senate

  • Virginia Secession From Union

  • Arkansas Secession From Union

  • North Carolina Secession From Union

  • Tennessee Secession From Union

  • Kentucky Ordinance Passed by People

  • Missouri Ordinance Passed (Not Presented to People)

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    -Was an Act passed by Abraham Lincoln legally freeing more than 3 million slaves in rebellious southern states during the Civil War
    -Did not free the 500,000 slaves still in Union territory

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    -Was considered the most important battle and a turning point in the American civil war between Union and Confederate forces in the town of Gettysburg, Virginia
    -Ended in defeat for Robert E. Lee's forces, forcing a retreat
    -Lead to Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address

  • Gettysburg Address

    -Was an address given by President Lincoln to his citizens in an effort to keep his troops motivated to fight for the reunification of the country
    -was incredibly short for his time but effective
    -Lincoln wished for his troops to fight for their fallen brothers, as not to make their deaths be in vain.

  • 13th Amendment

    -An amendment abolishing the act of slavery in the United States
    -Pertains to private citizens
    -was made to stabilize African Americans lives after the war

  • 14th Amendment

    -An amendment made stating that all people born in the United States, regardless of race, gender, or otherwise, are citizens of the country
    -Was made more directly to state governments, explaining that no laws of a state can deprive one of their life, liberty, or property without the just process of the law
    -One of the Reconstruction amendments

  • 15th Amendment

    -Granted African American men the right to vote
    -Their right to vote could not be infringed upon by any local government's laws
    -Was not enforced well, and Southern governments were able to use literacy tests and poll taxes to stop African Americans from voting for quite some time