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Unitarianism
Unitarians are a branch of Christanity that mainly focuses on logic -
CT #3: Ralph Waldo Emerson Born
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. -
Slavery In the North is Officially Prohibited
The importation of slaves was nationally prohibited in 1808, although illegal importation—smuggling—was not unusual. -
CT #5: Harriet Beecher Born
Harriet Beecher was a femminist best known for writing her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" -
Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
CT #5: Emma Willard's School for Girls
Emma Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York to provide young women with the same higher education as their male peers. -
Erie Canal Completed
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CT #3: Transendentalism
Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern region of the United States. The movement was a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to move far west. This caused people to get land for very little money. -
CT #4: Nat Turner's Rebellion
Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. -
Nullification Crisis
Having blamed the tariffs for part of the economic downturn in the 1820s, South Carolina passed a Nullification Ordinance in late 1832 that declared federal tariffs unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina, and made military preparations to resist federal enforcement. -
CT #7: Claude Minié's New Rifle Invention
A French army officer named Claude Minié invented a cone-shaped lead bullet with a diameter smaller than that of the rifle barrel. Soldiers could load these “Minié balls” quickly, without the aid of ramrods or mallets. -
CT #1: Polk Announces Gold in Oregon
Polk Announces Gold in Oregon, which causes people to move West. This creates a need for railroads. -
CT #4: Compremise of 1850
This was defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War -
CT #6: Violence in The Senate
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. -
CT #6: Dred Scott Decision
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens -
Harper's Ferry
This was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. -
CT #2: Lincoln is Elected
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CT #2: South Secedes
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Civil War Begins
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CT #7: North's Plan to End the War
By 1863, the north had 5 main plans to win the war fast: Fully blockade all Southern coasts. This strategy, known as the Anaconda Plan, would eliminate the possibility of Confederate help from abroad. Control the Mississippi River. The river was the South's major inland waterway. Also, Northern control of the rivers would separate Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas from the other Confederate states. Capture Richmond. Without its capital, the Confederacy's command lines would be disrupt -
CT #8: Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
Abraham Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the Union. Becuase of this, his plan was focused on forgivness. He, however, still wanted to be strict. -
CT #8: 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States -
CT #10: General William T. Sherman's Meeting with Abraham Lincoln
In his final meeting with President Lincoln in early April 1865, General William T. Sherman wrote that he left “more than ever impressed by his kindly nature, his deep and earnest sympathy with the afflictions of the whole people, resulting from the war, and by the march of hostile armies through the South; and that his earnest desire seemed to be to end the war speedily, without more bloodshed or devastation, and to restore all the men of both sections to their homes.” -
CT #10: Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
Becuase Johnson was from Tennesee, he wanted to have ultimate forgiveness for the South. He wanted to forget almost the entire thing. -
Abraham Lincoln Dies
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CT #9: 14th Amendment
The 14th addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
CT #11: Patience on a Monument
In this political cartoon, Thomas Nast noticed the irony that the pinnacle of citizenship did not help African Americans protect themselves or their families. -
CT #9: 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This, however, does not mention women. -
CT #11: Reconstruction Ends
After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority. -
CT #3: Ralph Waldo Emerson Dies
