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Era of Expansion and Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    The Compromise prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
  • Panic of 1837

    Panic of 1837

    The panic of 1837 was a finacial crisis in the US that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Unemplyment went up while prices, profits, and wages went down.
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    The forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands by Americans who want their land.
  • The Comproimse of 1850

    The Comproimse of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States. This compromise defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme

    Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme

    The War begins between the Union and Confederate nations.
  • Lincoln is elected president

    Lincoln is elected president

    Lincoin was elected to be president in 1860. He was the sixteenth president of the United States and the first repulician to win the presidency.
  • The Civil War Begins

    The Civil War Begins

    The War begins between the Union and Confederate nations.
  • Homested Act

    Homested Act

    he Homestead Act was a law signed by Lincoln. This law encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
  • Surrender at Appomattox

    Surrender at Appomattox

    Union Beat the South and the South surrended.
  • The Civil War Ends

    The Civil War Ends

    Reconstruction begins and the Unions states begin to rejoin the Union.