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Period 5
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James Polk elected president
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TX admitted into Union
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Mormon Migration starts
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Mexican-American War begins
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Wilmot Proviso introduced
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Frederick Douglass first publishes The North Star
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Native American Party formed
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CA gold rush begins
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed
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Free Soil Party formed
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Zachary Taylor is elected president
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The Compromise of 1850 was passed
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
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Franklin Pierce is elected president
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Republican Party created
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Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
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Bleeding Kansas started
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Gadsden Purchase
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1st Urban tenement built in NYC
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Know-Nothing Party founded
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Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner
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James Buchanan is elected president
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Dred Scott Decision
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates begin
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OR admitted into the Union
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Comstock Lode discovered
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Democratic Party splits
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Election of 1860 = Lincoln becomes president
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The Crittenden Compromise was proposed
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SC secedes from the Union
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Creation of the Confederate States of America
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Civil War Begins= Attack on Ft Sumter
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Homestead Act and Morrill Land Grant Act passed
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Union Pacific Railroad chartered (start of the Transcontinental Railroad)
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation issued
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Battles of Gettysburg started
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Battle of Vicksburg ends
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The New York Anti-Draft Riots
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LA, AR, TN readmitted to Union under Lincoln's plan
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Wade-Davis Bill passed
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Lincoln is re-elected President
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Sherman's march to the sea end
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13th Amendment ratified
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Freedmen's Bureau established
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KKK formed in South
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South Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
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Civil War Ends= Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
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Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president -
Black codes enacted
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Military Reconstruction Act
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14th Amendment is ratified
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Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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15th amendment is passed
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Transcontinental railroad completed
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First of the Enforcement acts passed
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Grant re-elected president
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Jim Crow laws began to be passed
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Compromise of 1877
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Rutherford B. Hayes elected president
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Last federal troops leave South= Reconstruction ends