Civil War Timeline

By Nicholas.D
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    American Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    • An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri.
    • The rivalries consisted of the people who beileved slavery was ok and the people that thought it was not
    • The importance of this was when Maine became a slave free state and Missouri stayed

  • Monroe Doctrine

    • U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent
    • It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America

  • Trail of Tears

    • A series of forced relocations of Native American
    • President Andrew Jackson abusing his powers to kick them out

  • Battle of the Alamo

    • Pivotal event in the Texas Revolution
    • An assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar
    • The key to the defense of Texas

  • Panic of 1837

    • Financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s
    • Americans all blamed Jackson for the Panic of 1837

  • Pre-Emption Act

    • Utilized by settlers in Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory
    • Homestead Act was enacted in 1862, claims under the Preemption Act sharply decreased

  • US - Mexican War

    • America secedes against Mexico

  • Bear Flag Revolt

    • Short-lived, unrecognized state that, for a few weeks
    • The rebellion was soon overtaken by the beginning of the Mexican–American War

  • Sutter's Fort

    • Fort was a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican Alta California Province
    • The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush and the formation of Sacramento

  • Compromise of 1850

    • A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress.
    • Defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    • Was past as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers
    • Most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy"

  • Gadsden Purchase

    • A region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States.
    • The purchase was the last territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States to add a large area to the country.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    • A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery.
    • A crisis really pushed the North and South apart and had a great deal to do with causing the Civil War.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    • A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free.
      • Taney hoped that his ruling would finally settle the slavery question

  • Harpers Ferry

    • Robert Harper was given a patent on a 125-acre parcel of land.
    • Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory

  • Gettsyburg

    • The Army of the Trans-Mississippi secedes

  • Civil War (Start)

    • A civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
    • The significance is the restoration of the United states and the Union

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    • As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war President Lincoln issued this.
    • It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free."

  • Gettysburg Address

    • A speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
    • The dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

  • 13th Amendment

    • An Amendment that excepts punishment for a crime

  • Civil War

    • Ending of the civil war.
    • Restoration of the United States.

  • 14th Amendment

    • The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

  • 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."