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A treaty singed by the United States that allowed them to purchase present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
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The formation of one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Allowed people from Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for the United States Senate.
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Abraham Lincoln served as president from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln used it to claim all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
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Campaign of the Civil War through Georgia.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House with the most celebrated Confederate Army.
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
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The Thirteenth Commandment declared that"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html)
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Alaska was purchased from Russia by the United States.
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House of Representatives adopted 11 articles explaining his "high crimes and misdemeanors."
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Granted citizenship to people " born or naturalized in the United States."
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Gave African American men the right to vote.
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Ten sophomores from Rutgers College (modern-day Rutgers University) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) and start the Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War.
