Art Work Through Time

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    Art Work Through Time

  • Jefferson Elected President

  • New York passes Emancipation Act

  • Ohio outlaws slavery

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Cupid and Psyche

    Cupid and Psyche
    Artist: Benjamin West
    Medium: Oil on canvas
  • James Madison is elected president

    Tensions with Britian begin to build.
  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • New York gives Free Blacks the right to vote

  • Mexico becomes a republic and outlaws slavery

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Texas declares independence from Mexico

  • Depression begins

  • Santa Anna is overthrown in Mexico

  • War with Mexico

  • War News From Mexico

    War News From Mexico
    Artist: Richard Caton Woodville
    Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision

  • Lincoln elected president

  • The Confederate States secede

  • Lee surrenders

  • Presidential Reconstruction

  • "Radical" Congressional Reconstruction

  • 15th Ammendment Ratified

  • 43rd Congress has seven black members

  • Jim Crow Laws passed

  • Civil Rights Act passed

  • Troops withdrawn from the South

  • Free by Emma Marie Cadwalader-Guild

    Free by Emma Marie Cadwalader-Guild
    Artist: Emma Marie Cadwalader-Guild
    Medium: Basswood
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional

  • 50th Congress has no black members

  • Southern States pass laws to disenfranchise blacks