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Mexican-American War
Border dispute: Neuces vs. Rio Grande
Plays in with the idea of Manifest Destiny, the US gets more land -
California Gold Rush
Westward Expansion and the population grew tremendously -
Treaty of Guadelope-Hidalgo
Mexican session
US gets more land including California and New Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
California wants to become a free state which becomes a major issue because California is supposed to fall under a slave state. -
Election of 1852
Both sides decide not to take a stand on the biggest issue which is slavery. Pierce wins and accepts the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
alllowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Election of 1856
Strong showing from Republicans in the North -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
African American slaves were not citizens. Congress could not deprive individuals of property without a process. -
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry was a target of an assalt by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wins ans the states start seceding -
South Carolina secedes
South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the Union -
Fort Sumter
The Souths decision for war and the war begins -
First Bulls Run
The fiirst major land battle of the armies in Virginia. This is when the war was projected to be longer than expected -
Emancipation Proclamation
Slavery was abolished and it allowed elistment of free blacks -
Gettysburg Address
First southern offense against the North and it was an accidental encounter which led to the deadlist battle -
Election of 1864
Lincoln wins agains McClellan -
Shermans March
to force the South into submission -
Freedmans Bureau
to give food, shelter, and a life for newly freed slaves -
Fall of Richmond
they lost their capital and the End of the war -
Lee's surrender
Lee surrenders for the war -
Lincoln's assasination
John wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head at Fords theater -
Reconstruction
Johnson is running the Recconstruction -
election of 1866
when radical republicans start to control the Reconstruction -
14th amendment
granted citizenship to all person born or naturalized in the united states which included former slaves recently freed -
election of 1868
Black votes garner victory for grant. african americans elected to state assemblies -
15th amendment
gave right to vote for all men -
election of 1872
Grant wins and becomes president -
civil rights act
prohibited discrimination in public places and prohibited courts for exluding blacks -
election os 1976
tilden wins and this is the end of reconstruction -
compromise of 1877
troops are removed from the South and they support building southern transcontinental railroad