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Period 5 Timeline
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican- American War was over a dispute between Mexico and the United States over the land of Texas. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso is a congressional proposal to abolish slavery by David Wilmot. -
Mexican Cession
in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Mexico lost nearly one million square miles of land—almost one-half of its territory. This territory, termed the "Mexican Cession," included land that makes up the states of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Texas, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty was the compromise the United States and Mexico made to stop the Mexican-American War. -
Compromise of 1850
Southern slave owners had long demanded a more stringent fugitive slave law while Northern abolitionists insisted that slavery should be abolished in the District of Columbia. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The 1850 act provided for federal commissioners to conduct hearings to grant or deny certificates permitting slave owners to retake fugitive slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Bleeding Kansas
Kansas territory became a running sore on the national political body that only inflamed hostility between North and South. Northerners who advocated a free state, known as "free soilers," streamed into Kansas Territory, only to be met by proslavery Southerners and Missourians. These Missourians were called "Border Ruffians" because they lived in Missouri but then traveled to Kansas to vote illegally in Kansas elections -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Scott appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for citizenship even as an African-American, where the case was recorded as Dred Scott v. Sandford and entered history with that title. He lost the case, 7-2. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. -
Raid of Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry Raid, (October 16–18, 1859), assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War and signaled the start of the war. It took place over two days from April 12–13, 1861. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation by Abe Lincoln allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union -- soldiers that were desperately needed. It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the war. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was a major victory for the Union during the Civil War. The Union Army surrounded the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi and eventually took control. -
Election of 1864
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. -
13th Amendment
An 1865 amendment to the US Constitution that forbids slavery and forced labor except, as regards the latter, as punishment for crime. -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency established on March 3, 1865 just before the end of the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era. The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help and protect emancipated slaves (freedmen) during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom. -
Lincoln's Assasination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The act was a momentous chapter in the development of civic equality for newly emancipated blacks in the years following the Civil War. The act accomplished three primary objectives designed to integrate blacks into mainstream American society. First, the act proclaimed "that all persons born in the United States ... are... declared to be citizens of the United States." Second, the act defines the rights of American citizenship: Third, the act made it unlawful to remove a person of any rights. -
Military reconstruction
They passed the MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION ACTS OF 1867, which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed. Under federal bayonets, blacks, including those who had recently been freed, received the right to vote, hold political offices, and become judges and police chiefs. -
14th Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” -
15th Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment, amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
Election of 1876
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, & had more electoral votes to Hayes'. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute: in three states, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal and replaced. The disputed electoral votes were then disputed and Hayes' eventually won. -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877, also known as the "Corrupt Bargain" or the "Great Betrayal" marked the end of Reconstruction in the South and a return to "Home Rule". The Compromise of 1877 was reached to settle the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. The secret deal ensured that the Republican Party candidate, Rutherford Hayes, would become the next president and that the Democrats would regain political power in the southern state governments.