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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri becomes a slave state and breaks off Massachusetts. Then Maine was made a free state, so there would still be 12 free states and 12 slaves states to keep balance. -
Start of Civil War
This war was started because of multiple issues, but the most important one being the dispute over slavery- whether it should be considered right or not. The North fought for the end of slavery, and the South to keep slavery. -
The Battle of Bull Run
Federal forces under General McDowell attempted to surround Confederate positions by crossing Bull Run but were turned back. The end result of the battle was a Confederate Victory. -
Battle of Wilson's Creek
The Union had failed to destroy the Missouri State Guard. It's a Confederate victory. -
Pacific Railway Act
It gave federal loans and land grants to railroad companies to complete a transcontinental railroad. -
Morrill Act
This act gave land grants to states to support technical and agricultural colleges. -
Homestead Act
This act offered free land to settlers occupying farms in the West. -
Lincoln's "ten percent plan"
President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee's second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This act granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all African-Americans. -
Military Reconstruction Act
passed by the Radical Republicans -
14th Amendment Ratified
The Congress impeaches Andrew Johnson because he kept firing everyone for no valid reason. -
15th Amendment
The amendment stopped anyone from denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Enforcement Act of 1870
This act protected the voting rights that African-Americans gained and helped the federal government get the power to enforce the 15th amendment. -
Ratification of 15th Amendment
The amendment was ratified to guarantee the right to vote for African-Americans in every state and no matter which party controlled the government. -
Coinage Act of 1873
This act revised the laws of its predecessor to pivot the country toward the gold standard and away from silver. -
Munn VS Illinois
the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries. -
Rutherford B. Hayes wins contested presidential election
There was a dispute for the presidential election because Rutherford had the most votes, but there were a lot of allegations that there was fraud and other things going on with the votes. Rutherford still ended up winning against Samuel Tilden. -
Compromise of 1877
an agreement that allowed Rutherford to become president in exchange of the end of the Reconstruction in the South. -
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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. -
The Invention of the Lightbulb
Thomas Edison and his team create the lightbulb and paved the way for the universal domestic use of electric light. -
Garfield's Assassination
James Abram Garfield was an American politician and mathematician who served as the 20th president of the United States from March to September 1881. Garfield was shot by an assassin four months into his presidency and died two months later. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. -
Home Insurance Building
The Home Insurance Building was the first skyscraper ever. It stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. -
Haymarket Riot
Labor leaders were arrested and put on trial after an explosion during a demonstration in Haymarket Square. Four were hanged. The labor movement became associated with violence and anarchism in the public mind. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The first federal law to regulate business practices.
Railroads could not give different rates for hauling the same freight the same distance, or charge more for short hauls than long hauls.
Congress set up a new agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, to oversee enforcement of the act. -
The Dawes Act
This act was passed to seize control over Native American land. -
Literacy Tests are imposed on Black Americans
The U.S. government creates the literacy tests for former slaves and African Americans. If a man got even one question wrong, he wasn't even allowed to vote. -
Homestead Strike
Carnegie and Frick decided to "break" the union and locked out
workers from Homestead Steelworks when they failed to negotiate a new contract. Workers went
on strike, surrounded the mill with picket lines, and defeated Pinkertons in the pitched battle.
The state militia was called out to protect the plants, and Frick sent in strike-breakers. Workers
gave in, ending unionization in steel mills.