PER 5 By spyballoon27 1845 Texas admitted into the Union as slave state Period: 1845 to 1877 Westward Expansion 1846 Wilmot Proviso Period: 1846 to 1848 The Mexican American War 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Period: 1848 to 1849 California Goldrush Period: 1848 to 1852 Free - Soil Party Sep 1, 1850 Compromise of 1850 Sep 18, 1850 Fugitive Slave Law passed Mar 1, 1852 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published Period: 1854 to 1860 Bleeding Kansas Feb 1, 1854 Republican Party formed May 1, 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act passed May 1, 1856 Charles Sumner assaulted in the Senate Mar 1, 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford Period: Aug 1, 1858 to Oct 1, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Oct 1, 1859 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Period: 1860 to 1861 Secession and creation of the Confederate States of America Nov 1, 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president Period: 1861 to 1865 The Civil War Apr 1, 1861 Attack on Fort Sumter, SC Jul 1, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run Apr 1, 1862 Battle of Shiloh May 1, 1862 Homestead Act passed Jun 1, 1862 Slavery prohibited in US territories Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued Jan 1, 1863 1st All-Black Union regiment formed (54th Massachusetts) Jul 1, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Jul 1, 1863 Draft Riots Nov 1, 1863 Gettysburg Address Nov 1, 1864 Sherman's "March to the Sea" Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Mar 1, 1865 Freedmen's Bureau established Apr 1, 1865 Lincoln assasinated Apr 1, 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse Dec 1, 1865 13th Amendment ratified Dec 1, 1865 Ku Klux Klan organized Apr 1, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 Mar 1, 1867 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Jul 1, 1867 14th Amendment ratified Nov 1, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected president Feb 1, 1869 15th Amendment ratified May 1, 1869 Transcontinental Railroad completed Period: 1870 to 1877 First African Americans serve in Congress May 1, 1872 Amnesty Act of 1872 Period: 1873 to 1879 Panic of 1873 Mar 1, 1877 Compromise of 1877 Apr 1, 1877 Federal troops withdrawn from the South