Antebellum Era to the Coming of the Civil War 1840-1870 By James C. Apr 1, 1840 Antislavery Liberty Party is Organized Image source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Party-1840-1848-Antislavery/dp/0807133930 Apr 4, 1841 Harrison dies after four weeks in office, Tyler assumes presidency image link: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/14/john-tyler-good-reminder-running-mates-matter/auVgQF6C9axD4qov2QDXqO/story.html Mar 4, 1844 Polk defeats Clay in “Manifest Destiny” election Image source: http://www.civilwarshades.org/james-k-polk/ Apr 12, 1845 united states annexes Texas image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Texas_in_United_States.svg/2000px-Texas_in_United_States.svg.png Period: Apr 1, 1846 to Feb 1, 1848 Mexican war Feb 2, 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects06/magsylje/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo.png Jan 29, 1850 compromise of 1850, including the fugitive slave law image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BZFYe98kpkk/S7UVszh5haI/AAAAAAAAC1M/cGNxhsb0mSo/s1600/Union.jpg Jul 9, 1850 Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor’s death image: https://wiseyoungowl.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/zachary-taylor-picture.jpg Mar 20, 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2014/01/uncle-toms-cabin.jpg Nov 2, 1852 Pierce defeats Scott for presidency image: http://images.slideplayer.com/18/6163459/slides/slide_8.jpg Mar 20, 1854 Republican Party Organizes http://www.tenfourmagazine.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/JulyWOW2.jpg May 30, 1854 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act https://figures.boundless-cdn.com/7301/large/lavery-freesoilers-throats.jpe Period: May 21, 1856 to Jan 1, 1860 Fighting in “bleeding Kansas” Nov 8, 1856 William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery http://www.heymiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/William-Walker1.jpg Jan 4, 1857 Lecompton Constitution rejected image:http://www.kshs.org/ksmemory/km90318cropped.jpg Mar 6, 1857 Dred Scott decision http://figures.boundless-cdn.com/7308/full/dredscott.jpeg Jun 26, 1857 Hinton R. Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South image:http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/helper/helptp.jpg Aug 21, 1858 Lincoln-Douglass Debates image:http://tdl.org/txlor-dspace/bitstream/handle/2249.3/652/images/image32.gif Oct 16, 1859 Brown raids Harpers Ferry https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/HWFireHouseBrown.jpg Nov 6, 1860 Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency and South Carolina secedes from the union https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vna0ile2ogg/maxresdefault.jpg Dec 18, 1860 Crittenden Compromise fails https://causesofthecivilwar.wikispaces.com/file/view/pic_crittenden.jpg/73435731/265x332/pic_crittenden.jpg Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865 Civil War Apr 15, 1861 Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus http://www.theday.com/storyimage/NL/20110626/NWS08/306269913/AR/0/AR-306269913.jpg&Maxw=960 Nov 10, 1861 Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America http://www.charlestonhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/union-is-disolved.jpg Jan 1, 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1, 1863 final Emancipation Proclamation http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/eman-proc-doc.jpg Nov 8, 1864 Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency http://www.civilwar.org/hallowed-ground-magazine/fall-2014/images/fighting-over-map-print.jpg Jan 1, 1865 Southern states pass black codes http://www.ohwy.com/history%20pictures/blackcodeconv.gif Jan 31, 1865 thirteenth amendment ratified https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide3.gif Mar 3, 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau established http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/article-top/public/m-8877.jpg?itok=ELlcsoLC Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln assassinated http://rogerjnorton.com/curr.jpg Apr 9, 1866 Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson’s veto http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/1.4.2012/image063.jpg Jul 9, 1866 Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide4.gif Dec 24, 1866 Klu Klux Klan founded http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/article_media/kkk-cross-burning.jpeg?itok=0wwGAcg6 Mar 2, 1867 Reconstruction Act http://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/MilitaryDistricts1867-0000.jpg Mar 30, 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide5.gif
