Period Five Timeline

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    Mexican-American War

    The United States Began To Expand Into Mexican Territory. Resulted In Mexico's Defeat And The Loss Of Half Of Their Territory.
  • Signing of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Signing of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Mexico Agrees To Give Up Their Land
  • Elcection

    Elcection

    Zachary Taylor Is Elceted Presdient
  • Presidency Of Taylor

    Presidency Of Taylor

    Taylor threatened to veto the Compromise of 1850 even at the risk of civil war.Taylor died. Millard Fillmore became President.

  • Compromise Of 1850

    Helped Determine The Future Of Future States Westward. Free or Slave

  • Election

    Presidental Election Held. Franklin Pierce became President
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    Rebellion

    Pottawatomie Massacre: The massacre, led by John Brown, took place.
  • Election

    Election

    U.S. presidential election, 1856: An election was held.
    1857 James Buchanan became President.

  • Taking Action

    A decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue.
  • Election

    Election

    United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States

  • Reaction From Lincoln

    South Carolina seceded from the Union
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    Confederacy

    Ten more states seceded from the Union and established the Confederate States of America.

  • First Battle

    First battle between the North and The South
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    American Civil War

    The North and The South Go To War