Romanticism

By kaitlyn.marie13

  • President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act

  • William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing “The Liberator"

  • Texas declares its independence from Mexico

  • “Trail of Tears”

  • The Wilmot Proviso is introduced by David Wilmot

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Oregon Treaty

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Abolitionist John Brown and 21 followers attack Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to spark a slave revolt

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected President

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana secede from the Union

  • Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee secede

  • Confederate States of America is established

  • Texas secedes from the Union

  • Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war

  • Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states

  • Period: to

    Battle of Gettysburg is fought

  • Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

  • Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va.,

  • President Lincoln is assassinated