Codell--Chapter 9 Timeline

By jack_codell

  • Toussaint was legally freed from slavery

    Section 3

  • Major slave revolt broke out

    Section 3

  • American diplomats in Paris sign the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

    Section 4

  • Revolutionaries of Saint Domingue declares independence from France & named their new nation Haiti

    Section 3

  • Hidalgo rang a bell in his home town

    Section 3

  • Great Britain & the United States went to war

    Section 4

  • Mexico declared independence from Spain

    Section 3

  • Parliament abolishes slavery in Great Britain

    Section 1

  • United States admits Texas as a state

    Section 4
  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

    Section 4

  • Gold was discovered in California

    Section 4

  • Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox, Virginia

    Section 4

  • British Parliament united several Canadian colonies & granted them power to govern themselves

    Section 1

  • Napoleon III drew France into a war with Prussia

    Section 2

  • Government made primary education available for children

    Section 2

  • Trade unions were legalized

    Section 2
  • Period: to

    Women took extreme measures in their fight for voting rights

    Section 1

  • Herzl published "The Jewish State"

    Section 2

  • Working hours had been reduced

    Section 2

  • Britain granted self rule to the Commonwealth of Australia

    Section 1

  • Parliament granted voting rights to women over age 30

    Section 1