History Extra Credit

By mattd146

  • Treaty of Paris

    ended the Revolutionary War
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France for $15 Million

  • Missouri Compromise

    prohibiting the practice of slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north

  • Compromise of 1850

    defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
  • Fugitive Slave Act*

    Fugitive Slave Act*

    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.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford*

    Dred Scott v. Sanford*

    African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court

  • Lincoln lost Illinois Senate Race to Stephen A. Douglas

    series of highly publicized debates held between Lincoln & Douglas

  • John Brown attack at Harper's Ferry

    Attack at Harper's Ferry, major event in lead up to Civil Way

  • Lincoln is nominated for Republican candidate

  • Lincoln is elected president

  • Begining of Civil War

  • Fort Sumpter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    Southern victory

  • Second battle of Bull Run

    Southern Victory

  • Battle of Antietam

    Bloddiest single day in the history of the Civil War

  • George McCellan fired as Union Commander

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Southern Victory
  • Emancipation Proclamation*

    Emancipation Proclamation*

    it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free."

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Southern Victory

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Northern Victory, was the turning point in the war

  • Vicksburg surrendered, Western theater

    giving the Union control of the Mississippi River

  • Fall of Atlanta

  • Lincoln re elected president

  • Grant Promoted to Union Commander

  • Battle of Five Forks

    Union victory last stand for the south

  • End of the Civil War

  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Lincoln is assassinated

  • Beginning of Reconstruction

  • 13th Amendment is ratified*

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

  • Ku Klux Klan is founded

  • Congressional Elections of 1866

  • Period: to

    President Johnson’s Impeachment Trial

  • Military Reconstruction Acts

  • Freedmen’s Bureau is established*

    intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.[ The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
  • 14th Amendment is ratified*

    14th Amendment is ratified*

    Defined US citizenship and forbid sates to restrict basic rights of citizens

  • Massacre in Louisiana of 200-300 African Americans

  • 15th Amendment is ratified*

    15th Amendment is ratified*

    Prohibited restricting voting based on race or previous slavery
  • Hiram R. Revels becomes Senator of Mississippi*

    Hiram R. Revels becomes Senator of Mississippi*

    First Black person to serve US Senate

  • Freedmen's Bureau is abolished*

    Freedman's Bureau was less effective as KKK became moe powerful.

  • Compromise of 1877* & End of Reconstruction

    Unwritten deal that settled US presidential election of 1876, took federal troops out of politics in South, and ended Reconstruction Era