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Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of a 5 separate bills passed by the United States Congress it defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories during Mexican-American war. -
Gadsden Purchase
29,670 square mile of present-day southern Arizona, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, the United States agreed to pay Mexico 10 million -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
29,670 square mile of present-day southern Arizona, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, United States agreed to pay Mexico 10 millio -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-States and pro-slavery" -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American, Dred Scott brought tension surrounding the issue of slavery, in the supreme court ruled Dred Scott and he was still a slave, he was not a citizen, The Dred Scott decision was a landmark case in it that drew a clear line of how the government stood an issue with slavery. -
Lincoln Douglas
The Lincoln-Douglas was a series of seven debates. They ended at Alton, Ilinois. President in the 1860 election make Lincoln a national figure who is seen as a moderate within the Republican Party. -
John Brown hanged
John Brown was accused for treason, murder, and insurrection. The reason why he was hanged its because his leadership role in the raid on the Harper's Ferry armory and failed attempt to revolt among Virginia slaves. -
Abraham Lincoln Election
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party. November 1860 election, Lincoln faced Douglas, he represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
South Carolina withdrew from the United States, the state seceded because Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the republicans were a new party, they wanted to stop slavery from spreading to western territories. -
First Battle of Bull Run
McDowell’s Union force struck on July 21, Johnston and Beauregard’s orders, more and more Confederate reinforcements arrived, even as the Federals struggled with coordinating assaults made by different regiments. Despite of there victory the confederate soldiers were to disorganized to press their disadvantage. -
Elisha Otis
American founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling. Although Otis didn't build the first elevator he invented the brake used in the modern elevators. -
Sherman's " March to the Sea"
Sherman's March to the Sea, more formally known as the Savannah Campaign, it was a military campaign of the civil war. The purpose of the March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into leaving the Confederate. Sherman's soldiers did not destroy any of the towns but they stole food and livestock. -
Thirteen Amendment Abolishing Slavery
The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. -
KKK Formed
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections.In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. When Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away. -
Alaska Purchase
The Alaskan Purchase was influenced in the congress and the press. Was signed by Andrew Jackson.
