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Missouri Compromise
Missouri could join the United States as a slave state if Maine, in the northeast, joined as a free state. Congress agreed that in the Louisiana Territory bought from France in 1803, there would be no slavery in lands north of latitude 36 30' that were still awaiting statehood. The only exception to this was the state of Missouri itself. -
Gag Rule
In the late 1830s, Congress received more than 130,000 petitions from citizens demanding the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C., and other federally-controlled territories. In 1836, the House passed a resolution to its rules of procedure which banned the discussion of these petitions. The so-called “gag rule” was reinforced in 1839, 1841 and 1843 as part of the rules readopted by the House with each new Congress. -
Texas Annexed by the USA
Until it declared its independence in 1836, Texas was pat of Mexico. In the decades leading up to 1836, American settlers had moved to Texas, many of them with slaves. Slavery, however, was illegal in Mexico. Some Texans wanted to join with the USA, others to keep complete independence. Eventually, in 1845, the U.S offered to annex Texas. A year later, an agreement was reached and Texas became a state in the USA. -
War With Mexico Begins
The causes of the war include the annexation of Texas, Mexican's fear that the U.S wanted to take over the whole of the Southwest and destroy their republic, the failure of U.S politicians to understand why the Mexicans did not like the idea of parting with 'spare' land that the USA could settle, and the U.S view of Mexicans as cruel and incompetent rulers, and the resulting claim that the territory would be much better run by the USA. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48). Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
USA Settles Dispute With Britain Over Oregon
The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel with the exception of Vancouver Island, which was retained in its entirety by the British. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends U.S Mexican War
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,[1] is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–48). With the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a peace treaty that ended the US Mexican war. B ut the US had paid for the war, 1700 US Soldiers had been killed, 11,000 had died of disease and congress had paid $100 million for the war effort. also about 50,000 Mexican soldiers had been killed and the result lasted in ever lasting bitterness in Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise. It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. -
The Gadsden purchase
The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Bleeding Kansas (to 1861)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" -
Formation of the Republican Party
With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott judgement
Dred Scott, an enslaved man of "the negro African race" who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom. In a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the court denied Scott's request. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential election. Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States. -
Treaty of tianjin with china
The treaties that ended the first part of the second Opium War were signed on June 26th and 27th, 1858. British traders were profitably importing opium into China in defiance of the Chinese regime from the early 1800s and determination to open China further to Western commerce inspired the two Opium Wars. this treaty also opened up more trade post. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22, was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid, but Harriet was ill and Douglass declined, as he believed Brown's plan would fail. -
Abe Lincoln Elected as President
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. -
South Carolina Secedes from the USA
When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it. -
Six Other States Secede from the USA: Confederacy Established
The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. Just as Springfield, Illinois celebrated the election of its favorite son to the Presidency on November 7, so did Charleston, South Carolina, which did not cast a single vote for him. -
Lincoln Inaugurated as President
Monday, March 4, 1861, was a big day for Abraham Lincoln and for America. With the swearing of his official vows, Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. His speech was a very important one because he would be speaking not only as the new president but also as the leader of a nation in crisis. Lincoln was well prepared. He had sought lots of help to deliver the right message in his inaugural address. -
CSA forces take Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30 p.m. on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
Four More States Join the Confederacy
Four additional slave-holding states – Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina – declared their secession and joined the Confederacy following a call by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln for troops from each state to recapture Sumter and other seized federal properties in the South. -
Four Slave States decide to star in USA
The border slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri remained with the Union, although they all contributed volunteers to the Confederacy. Fifty counties of western Virginia were loyal to the Union government, and in 1863 this area was constituted the separate state of West Virginia. -
Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory. -
Jefferson Davis elected President of the CSA; Trent Affair; Danger of British Intervention
On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term. The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy illegally captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship; the UK protested vigorously. Britain threatened to go to war if they were not returned. -
USA Abolishes Slavery in Washington D.C.
Slavery abolished in Washington D.C., the nations capitol. President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, an important step in the long road toward full emancipation and enfranchisement for African Americans. -
The Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
The second Battle of Bull Run was a much larger battle than the first one. The battle took place on August 28 - August 30, 1862. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, defeated the Union's Major General John Pope and his Army of Virginia. This war proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. -
Battle of Antietam
George McClellan mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. The vicious Confederate counterattacks swept through Miller’s Cornfield. The third major assault by the Union army pushed over a bridge at Antietam Creek. The bloodiest single day in American military history ended in a draw, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. President Abraham Lincoln signed the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the rebelling states. The preliminary proclamation was issued in September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of Northern territory. He was pursued Gen. George Meade. The opposing forces collided at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1. The following day, Lee attacked the Federals, but failed to dislodge the defenders. On July 3rd, Lee attacked the Union. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed and had resulted in heavy casualties; an estimated 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or listed as missing after Gettysburg. -
Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy. -
Atlanta falls to Sherman
Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman lays siege to Atlanta, Georgia, a critical Confederate hub, shelling civilians and cutting off supply lines. The Confederates retreated, destroying the city’s munitions as they went. On November 15, 1864, Sherman’s troops burned much of the city before continuing their march through the South. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign was one of the most decisive victories of the Civil War. -
Lincoln Defeats McClellan
In this match, incumbent president Republican Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan, who tried to portray himself to the voters as the "peace candidate" who wanted to bring the American Civil War to a speedy end. -
Sherman March to the Sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. -
CSA Surrenders
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Lincolns Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die of assassination. He was shot in the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth, a well known actor and Confederate spy from Maryland. Lincoln's assassination was at Ford's Theatre in Washington. -
13th Amendment Added
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or previous condition. -
the purchase of alaska
The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia's presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim. -
14th Amendment Added
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Grant becomes President
In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States in 1869 to 1877, working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. In 1869, at age 46, Grant became the youngest president. -
The Great Sioux War
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
Inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes
This ceremony was held in secret, because the previous year's election had been so bitterly divisive that outgoing President Grant feared an insurrection by Samuel J. Tilden's supporters and wanted to ensure that any Democratic Party attempt to hijack the public inauguration ceremony would fail. Having been sworn in already in private, Hayes took the oath again publicly on March 5, 1877 on the East Portico of the United States Capitol. -
U.S Mexican War
the US American war started by with the annexation of Texas but it was mainly president Polk since he was a strong supporter for the manifest destiny so he sent 4000 troops to the US Mexican border and the war started when a Mexican army attacked US soldiers on What Americans though was their side of the rio Grande. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891, in 1898 by the Curtis Act, and again in 1906 by the Burke Act -
Acquisition of Cuba
cuba is an example of the US and expansionism in the 19th Century
this brought the explosion of the USS Maine when it was sent to neutral waters to protect the Americans caught up in the War -
The Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine–American War. -
The philippines Organic act
The Philippine Organic Act was a basic law for the Insular Government that was enacted by the United States Congress on July 1, 1902. It is also known as the Philippine Bill of 1902 and the Cooper Act, after its author Henry A. Cooper. The approval of the act coincided with the official end of the Philippine–American War. -
Roosevelt corallary
The Roosevelt Corollary was a substantial amendment to the Monroe Doctrine by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserted the right of the United States to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts. The alternative was intervention by European powers, especially Britain and Germany, which loaned money to the countries that did not repay. -
First World War break out in europe
War came around Europe around in august 1914
The US was now a world power but had remained neutral
Britain had blockade Germany immediately dropped in trades between United States but Britain avoided
this benefitted the United States since they took over Germany and Britain markets in south America
lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history -
USA enters War
More than 2 million men crossed to France and they played a key role in fighting in 1918 and by the end 112,000 soldiers had died
huge sums of money where raised by taxation and borrowing to fund the war and large loans where made to Britain and france
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The 14 Points
Fourteen Points. Fourteen Points is a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I, elucidated in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. -
United States and China
treaty of wangxia was signed in fear of Britain dominating the chines market. the treaty of Tianjin opened to the USA and allowed Christian missionaries to travel to china.
also Woodrow Wilson stopped Japanese aggression on chin in 1915 -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers (mainly United States, British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, and other Allied Powers). It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.
