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Missouri Compromise
Under the leadership of Henry Clay and presidency of James Monroe, the Missouri compromise is known as the series of agreements passed by the congress to recognize Missouri as a slave state or a free state. Under the agreements, Missouri was titled a slave state. -
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. -
Mexico abolishes slavery
In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery and insisted Texas do the same, without an underlying reason as to why they've advised Texas. Because of the cultural differences between Texas and Mexico, issues intensified making them have a bad connection/relationship with eachother. Since they had a bad relationship, Texas wasn't fond of their decision. -
Nat Turner's rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. -
The liberator
The liberator was a newspaper, written to deliver an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation, by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
In 1833, Stephen F. Austin was imprisoned for stirring up revolution, while he was on his way traveling home from Mexico City. -
Texas Revolution
After Santa Anna, a Mexican Politician, suspended local powers in Texas and other Mexican states, several rebellions broke out and one of them was called the Texas Revolution. -
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a trail that stretched from Independence, Missouri to Oregon city, Oregon. Two Methodist missionaries named Marcus and Narcisa were the first travelers and they proved that wagons could travel on the Oregon Trail. -
Manifest Dynasty
In the 1840's during the westward expansion, many Americans thought that their expansion was in their destinies, like it was planned by God and meant to be. The phrase “manifest destiny”
expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory. -
Texas enters the United States
In 1844, Texas was brought into the US, became a part of the US. Most texans were hoping this would happen, the southerners wanted Texas for more slavery since it was established there; however, the northerners thought that bringing in more slavery could ignite the fire of Mexico leading to war between the US and Mexico. -
Mexican-American War
After the US-Texas annexation, the Mexican Government was furious and immediately turned to war. On December 29th, 1845, Texas had entered the union and events moved quickly to war. -
the north star
In 1847, Douglass began his own
antislavery newspaper. He named it
The North Star, after the star that
guided runaway slaves to freedom. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty between US and Mexico that ended the war between the US and Mexico in 1848. -
Abolition
Abolition was one of the biggest movements to abolish slavery in the US. It became one the most important reform movements in USA. -
Underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", -
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. 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 -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
In Dred Scott v. Sandford (argued 1856 -- decided 1857), the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. -
Abraham Linoln and stephen douglas debates
Douglas advocated "popular sovereignty," which maintained the right of the citizens of a territory to permit or prohibit slavery. It was, he said, a sacred right of self-government. Lincoln pointed out that Douglas's position directly challenged the Dred Scott decision, which decreed that the citizens of a territory had no such power. -
John Browns raid/Harpers ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
Formation of confederacy
The Confederacy Established. South Carolina was the first to secede, on December 20, 1860, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On February 8, 1861, representatives of those states announced the formation of the Confederate States of America, with its capital at Montgomery, Alabama. -
Harriet tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. -
attack on fort sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War. -
battle of bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as Battle of First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C -
battle of antietam
The Battle of Antietam /ænˈtiːtəm/, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. -
battle at vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi, also called the Siege of Vicksburg, was the culmination of a long land and naval campaign by Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the significance of the town situated on a 200-foot bluff above the Mississippi River -
conscription
During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress passes a conscription act that produces the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history. The act called for registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45, including aliens with the intention of becoming citizens, by April 1. -
emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
battle of gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
gettysburg address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
Sherman's march
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
13th ammendment
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. -
assassination of abraham lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. -
surrender at appomattox court house
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War -
Income tax
Pre-16th Amendment. In order to help pay for its war effort in the American Civil War, Congress imposed its first personal income tax in 1861. It was part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
