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Gold Rush
The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood -
compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay attempted to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Bleeding kansas
a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Kansas- Nebraska- act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
John Brown
John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. -
Secession
South Carolina voted to Secede from the union, and over the next six weeks the rest of the south followed. -
Confederate States was founded
Led by Jefferson Davis, The confederate states were declared an independent republic. -
Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg
3 days of brutal warfare, with 23,000 union deaths, and 28,000 confederate deaths, -
vicksburg
Union fights to control the Mississippi river. Vicksburg was the last major confederate base on the river, grant puts it under siege for three months. It ended in the confederacy surrendering -
Sherman's March
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
13th Amendmant passed
Bans slavery forever in the United States -
Freedmen's Bureau
Fed and clothed ex slaves, helped them get jobs and get back on their feet. -
Lee Surrendered
General Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. -
15th Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant becomes president, and now the entire government is controlled by republicans, and the 15th Amendment is passed: making all African Americans able to vote and run for office. -
panic of 1873
practically the great depression for 7 years. it sucks everywhere. flip flops the presidential powers and the nation switches from republican to democratic.
