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antebellum
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mexican and american war
started because polk took the state of texas from mexico -
gold discovered in california
Polk announced gold had been discovered in california. -
The compromise
The dispute over addmitance of additional states. While trying to maintain the balance of free and slave states -
Fugitive slave act
The antislavery or better known as the compromise of 1850 began. Also spurring the underground railroad tohelp slaves escape. -
women gain rights
in most states it has been accepted for women to retain their earnings -
lincolns inauguration
Lincoln states that he had no plans to end slavery in those states where it already existed, but he also said he would not accept secession. He hoped to resolve the national crisis without warfare. -
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civil war
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seven days
Over the course of seven days of fighting, General Robert E. Lee attacks George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac near Richmond, Virginia. Huge casualties cause McClellan to withdraw north towards Washington -
preliminary emancipation
Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declares his intention to free all slaves in any new territory captured by the Union Army. -
emancipation proclamation
all slaves in areas still in rebellion were, in the eyes of the federal government, free. -
lincoln gets shot
John Wilkes booth shot president Abraham Lincoln at a play at the fords theater in washington D.C, five days after the civil war ended. -
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reconstruction
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Klu Klux Klan Begins
The terrorist group known as the kkk starts to try and re-establish white authority. -
New Orleans Race Riot
Also known as the new orleans massacre was started because the government passed the black codes and refused to give black men the right to vote. White supremacitsts made a block so the blacks (delegets) coun't meet. -
forteenth amendment ratified
revokes the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution and creates a new federal category of citizenship. -
dominican republic plan
grant tries to find land for freed slaves to settle on -
clinton massacre
More than twenty black Americans are killed in a massacre in Clinton, Mississippi.
