Antebellum Era to the Coming of the Civil War 1840-1870

Antislavery Liberty Party is Organized

Apr 1, 1840

Image source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Party-1840-1848-Antislavery/dp/0807133930

Harrison dies after four weeks in office, Tyler assumes presidency

Apr 4, 1841

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Polk defeats Clay in “Manifest Destiny” election

Mar 4, 1844

Image source: http://www.civilwarshades.org/james-k-polk/

united states annexes Texas

Apr 12, 1845

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Mexican war

Period: Apr 1, 1846 to Feb 1, 1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Feb 2, 1848

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compromise of 1850, including the fugitive slave law

Jan 29, 1850

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Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor’s death

Jul 9, 1850

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mar 20, 1852

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Pierce defeats Scott for presidency

Nov 2, 1852

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Republican Party Organizes

Mar 20, 1854

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1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

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Fighting in “bleeding Kansas”

Period: May 21, 1856 to Jan 1, 1860

William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery

Nov 8, 1856

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Lecompton Constitution rejected

Jan 4, 1857

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Dred Scott decision

Mar 6, 1857

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Hinton R. Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South

Jun 26, 1857

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Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Aug 21, 1858

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Brown raids Harpers Ferry

Oct 16, 1859

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Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency and South Carolina secedes from the union

Nov 6, 1860

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Crittenden Compromise fails

Dec 18, 1860

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Civil War

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865

Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus

Apr 15, 1861

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Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America

Nov 10, 1861

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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1862

final Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

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Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency

Nov 8, 1864

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Southern states pass black codes

Jan 1, 1865

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thirteenth amendment ratified

Jan 31, 1865

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Freedmen’s Bureau established

Mar 3, 1865

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Lincoln assassinated

Apr 15, 1865

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Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson’s veto

Apr 9, 1866

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Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment

Jul 9, 1866

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Klu Klux Klan founded

Dec 24, 1866

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Reconstruction Act

Mar 2, 1867

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Fifteenth Amendment ratified

Mar 30, 1870

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