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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri would be a slave state in all territory 36"30 North would be free. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott sued for his freedom which reached the Supreme Court. -
Martin Van Buren Loses
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Compromise of 1850
California is free, the rest of new territory is decided by popular vote in the territory. (undid the Missouri Compromise of 1820) -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe who resented agasint the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Safety Elevator
Elisha Otis develops a safety mechanism to prevent elevator cars from suddenly falling. He demonstrates his invention at an exposition in New York. -
Election
(The Republican Party loses the election..) Dred Scott vs. Sandford Dred Scott loses. -
Supreme Court
A controversial Supreme Court deciscion widened the growing divisions over slavery. -
Senate Election
Lincoln is a lawyer and politics
Kansas Nebraska Act pulls Lincoln into politics. -
Oil Well
Ewin Drake drilled what became the world's first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. -
Election of 1860
Democrats win, North, Douglas, Southerners form and break away. -
States secede
6 states secede from the union following the secession of South Carolina. -
Confederacy
7 seceding states established the confederate states of America and frames a constitution for the new government resembled in the U.S. Constitution. -
Kansas
Kansas enters the Union as a free state. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln ends slavery as an "Official War Measure" which only applied to states under rebellion. -
Draft Law
Congress passes draft law which causes rights and protest to break out, Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus and the Union soldiers can make arrests. -
William T. Sherman
Union General William T. Sherman lead more than 60,000 troops on a 400-mile march of destruction thorugh Georgia and South Carolina. -
Lee surrenders
Union wins, Reconstruction begins. -
14th Amendment
Amendment was ratified. Every person born in the U.S was given citizenship. -
Freedmen Rebuild Their Lives
As many as 300,000 African American adults and children were acquiring basic literacy. -
15th Amendment
Guaranteed that no male citizen could be denied the right to vote on the a basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Corporations in America
After 1870, the number of corporations in America increased dramatically. -
Chicago Fire
destroyed 200-300 people and left more then 100,000 people homeless -
Reconstruction Ends
A series of bacnk failures sparked a severe economic downturn. -
Election of 1876
TIlden (D) vs. Rutherford B Hayes (R)
Tilden wins popular vote. Hayes will be president but troops need to be pulled from the South. Reconstruction ends. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone -
railroads
wages were cut, led to violence -
Light Bulb
Thomas Edison and his team invented the light bulb. -
Immigrants
Nearly 3 quarters of a million immigrants arrived in America. -
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge was completed. (longest bridge in the world at the time) -
Interstate Commerce Commission
THe U.S. Senate created teh ICC to oversee railroad operations -
Steel
THe U.S. was outproducing British stell manufacturers. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Senate passed the act which outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states." -
Jacob Riis
Drew attention to the plight of New York tenement dwellers -
Homestead
cut wages, more vilence, went too far, public opinion of unions was turning -
Pullman
Pullman lowered wages, did not lower the cost of living -
Telegraph
Guglielmo Marconi invernted the wireless telegraph -
First successful Air Flight
By the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, who marked the birth of a new industry.