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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise states that Missouri would be a slave state and all territory above 36 degree 30 N would be free. -
Compromise of 1850
Comrpomise of 1850 states that California is free and the rest of the new territory decided by popular vote in the territory. This undid the Missouri Comprimise. -
Republic Party
The Republic Party campaigned on abolition. They quickly become a powerful force in politics. They lose the election in 1856 -
Senate Election
Lincoln, lawyer at the time, was pulled into the election because of his interest in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Douglas was popluar in th North and South.
-South: he was pro popular sovereignty
-North: he wanted the K&N territory for railroads to Chicago.
* Douglas wins election and Lincoln is pushed into National spot light -
Election of 1860
Douglas (D) vs. John Bell (W) vs. Lincoln (R)
Lincoln wins the election. 60% of electoral votes. NO electoral votes in the South. This was the end of NATIONAL political parties. In result, South Carolina suceds from Union. Then other southern states follow. -
Charleston Meeting
The meeting at Charleston declared that the union now nowsubsusting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the United States of America is herbey dissolved. -
Conferderate States of America
Seven seceding states established the Confederate States of America. Similar to Us cont but expressed the independence of each state and had the right to secede. -
Lincoln takes office
Lincoln was sworn in as President. -
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Civil War
Fight over slavery and or the union! -
Anaconda Plan
North had victories in Mississppi and in New Orleans. The plans was to seize these places so the South could not send or receive shipments. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln ends slaves as official war measure but it only applied to states under rebellion. It did not outlaw slavery. IT did not give free dlaves citizenship. Free slaves joined the army. -
End of Civil War
The Union won the Civil War -
Lincoln's end
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. VP Andrew Johnson became president. -
Fourtrrnth Amendment
14th amendment guarantees full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the U.S. -
Impeachment
Congress voted to impeach Johnson because of the clashes with the Radicals. The Senate narrowly voted not to remove Johnson but by that time he had lost control or reconstruction. Then Grant was voted into Presidency -
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Cities from Boston to San Fran. thousands of citizens watch the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, tour the US promoting the game en route to a 57-0-1 record -
Literacy rate increases
the improvement of educational facilites caused the literacy rate to reach 80% for the first time in the US -
GReat Chicago Fire
The great chicago fire kills hundreds of people as it spread more than three miles and lasted for three days. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan is arrested for casting an election ballet and more womesn start to fight for equal rights -
Grasshoppers
The GReat Plains and midwestern farms are decimated by grasshoppers -
Election of 1876
Tilden(D) vs Rutherford B. Hayes(R)
Tilden was popluar vote, Hayes wins the election, but the troops need to be pulled from the South. This ends reconstruction. -
Telephone patent
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone -
Electric Arc Light system
Electric Arc -light system installed in Philadelphia -
Salvation Army
Salvation Army arrives from England -
Incandescent Lightbulb
Thomas Edison creates the incandescent lightbulb -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CArnegie offers to build a library for every American city that will maintain it -
William Jenney
Wiliam Jenney biulds strell-frame structure (HIB) in Chicago -
Electric Trolley line
COnstruction of the first electric trolley line in Richmond, Va -
Subway
Boston builds first American Subway (N.Y. 1904) -
Immigrants
30% of the city residents were immigrants, some of the mjor cities and the largest representationm of immigrants