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Period 5

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    Mexican-American War

    Treaty of Guadalupe ends the Mexican-American War
  • Compromise of 1850

    package of 5 separate bills passed by Congress to defuse tensions between the North and South over slavery, admitting California as a free state, established popular sovereignty for new mexico/ Utah territories, ending the slave trade in D.C, settling Texas boundary, and enacting a stricter Fugitive slave Act.
  • Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Ostend Manifesto

    Secret proposal by U.S diplomats to buy Cuba from Spain for 130 million. This fueled the North and south division.
  • Beginning of "Bleeding Kansas"

    Began with the Kansas- Nebraska Act, using popular soviernty to let settlers vote if Kansas would be free or a slave state.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

    denied citizenship to African Americans, declared Missiouri compromise unconstitutional, and asserted Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories.
  • Johnn Brown raid on Harpers Ferry aresenal

    failed attempt by Radical abolitionists to start a slave rebellion by stealing weapons to arm the enslaved people. Increasing North and South tensions.
  • South Carolina secedes from the United States

    South Carolina's secession was due to the fears that Lincoln's anti-slavery would threaten their way of life
  • New York City Draft Riots

    The Draft Riots was a massive riot against the Civil War military draft, caused by economic hardships,racial tension,and resentment toward the wealthy republican government.
  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    The Republican Party won, Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
  • First Confiscation Act

    Passed by the U.S Congress, that was a wartime measure during the civil war that allowed or the seizure of property. It declared that any property aiding the insurrection was subject to capture and required judicial condemnation.
  • 6 more states in the Deep South secede

    After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi,Florida, Alabama,Georgia,Louisiana, and Texas seceded to form the COnfederate states of America
  • Inauguration of Lincoln

    Lincoln pledged not to interfere with slavery but vowed to preserve the Union.
  • 4 more states seceded in the upper south

    After the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for more troops, after this 4 more southern states seceded and joined the Confederacy.
  • Second Confiscation Act

    Step toward emancipation that declared slaves of Confederate officials "free"
  • Homestead Act

    offered 160 acres of public land to settlers who paid a small fee and would live on the land for 5 years. This enlightened the Westward expansion.
  • Morrill Land Grant Act

    U.S law that granted federal land to fund colleges based on agriculture,mechanical arts, and military tactics.
  • Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

    Critical turning points on the American Civil war, this shattered Confederate morale, this gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy.
  • Emancipation Proclamation into effect

    Executive order by President Abraham Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
  • New York Draft Riots

    In July 1863, Riots against the draft erupted in New York City, in which a mostly Irish American mob attacked blacks and wealthy whites.
  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Union Campaign in 1864, by General Sherman, marching from Atlanta Georgia to Savannah, using total war tactics to destroy Confederate infrastructure, and moral by destroying railroads and factories.
  • Reelection of Lincoln

    Lincoln got reelected, Lincoln secured his leadership to guid the Union to victory and end slavery.
  • Grant besieges Richmond

    Grant move the western army through the South towards the sea, he defeated COnfederate General Lee in Virginia with his second army, the 2 armies met up and captured Richmond.
  • Southern states pass Black Codes.

    Southern states passed Black codes, to restrict the rights of freedom African Americans, limiting jobs, control the labor and their social lives.
  • Lincoln assassinated, presidency of Andrew Johnson

    Lincoln was assassinated on April 14,1865, by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate at the Ford's Theater in D.C. Booth assassinated Lincoln because of his support of Black equality. This was part of a Confederate plot to decapitate the U.S government.
  • Freedman's Bureau established

    U.S government agency in 1865 after the Civil war, to aid formerly enslaved people and poor white in the Reconstruction era, providing food, housing,medical aid, and education. Federal effort to transition millions to freedom, established a foundation for Black education and civil rights, shut down in 1872.
  • ratification of the 13th amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S, except as a punished for a crime.
  • Great Sioux War

    A major U.S army campaign in Montana and Dakota Territories, which protected miners on Bozeman Trail but failed to defeat tribes.
  • Civil Rights Act passed

    Outlaws discrimination based on race,color,religion,sex,and origin
  • Formation of the Ku Klux Klan

    A group of people who believed in White Supremacy, and killed freedom African Americans who "Didn't know where they belong"
  • Reconstruction Acts passed

    series of laws passed by the U.S Congress to rebuild the South after the Civil War, which placed the federal military in Confederate states. confederate states were divided into 5 districts and required them to Draft new constitutions that would guarantee black male suffrage and ratifying the 14th Amendment to reenter the Union, insuring civil rights and the reshaping of Southern politics.
  • Tenure of Office Act

    passed by Radical Republicans over President Johnsons veto, designed to limit the presidents power, requiring senate approval or removing certain officials. This was built to protect radical reconstruction allied such as Secretary of War Stanton, Johnson then tried to fire Stanton that led into his impeachment
  • Johnsons impeachment

    He violated the Tenure of Office Act, firing secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
  • ratification of the 14th amendment

    July 9, 1868, granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S and guaranteeing equal protection of the laws
  • 15th amendment ratified

    Granted African American men the right to vote, ratified in 1870