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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Texas annexed by the USA
The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. After declaring their independence from the Republic of Mexico in 1836, the vast majority of Texas citizens favored the annexation of the Lone Star Republic by the United States. -
U.S Mexican American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against The U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.The Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory. -
War with Mexico begins
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. -
USA settled dispute with Britain over Oregon
The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question, was a controversy over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations over the region -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends US-Mexican war
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ends the Mexican-American War. Guerilla attacks against U.S. supply lines continued, but for all intents and purposes the war had ended. Santa Anna resigned, and the United States waited for a new government capable of negotiations to form. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
The Gadsden Purchase
Meeting in Mexico City on December 30, 1853, James Gadsden, U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase. The treaty settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, giving the U.S. claim to approximately 29,600 square miles of land in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona, for the price of $10 million. -
Formation of the Republican Party
Formation of the Republican Party. The founding event of the Republican Party is a matter of some dispute. Some point to a mass meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin in March 1854; others cite a later gathering in Jackson, Michigan. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Dred Scott judgement
On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney read the majority opinion of the Court, stated that black people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government; the opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a federal territory was overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared everyone born in the United States to be citizens. -
Treaty of Tianjin with China
They ended the first phase of the Second Opium War, which had begun in 1856. The Qing, Russian, and Second French Empires, the United Kingdom, and the United States were the parties involved. These unequal treaties opened more Chinese ports to foreign trade, permitted foreign legations in the Chinese capital Beijing, allowed Christian missionary activity, and legalized the import of opium -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
Historically, Harpers Ferry is best known for John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859. The population was 286 at the 2010 census. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country; this was not to be. -
Abraham Lincoln elected as President
Abraham Lincoln, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He won over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. -
South Carolina seceded from the USA
South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to SECEDE from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the CONFEDERACY was formed.Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. Just as Springfield, Illinois celebrated the election of its favorite son to the Presidency on November 7, so did Charleston, South Carolina, which did not cast a single vote for him. -
six other states seceded from the USA
Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. Just as Springfield, Illinois celebrated the election of its favorite son to the Presidency on November 7, so did Charleston, South Carolina, which did not cast a single vote for him. It knew that the election meant the formation of a new nation. -
The Confederacy established
On this day in 1861, delegates from six states — South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana — met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. On Feb. 9, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected the CSA’s president.Discussions of a unified separation from the federal government had been ongoing for several years. -
Fort Sumter Attack
Confederate general demanded the surrender of Fort Sumter, which was a Union garrison. The garrison commander held his ground until 50 cannons bombarded the garrison on April 12. The garrison could not respond and evacuated the complex. No casualties were taken in the event which began the American Civil War. -
Lincoln inaugurated as president
The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States took place on March 4, 1861 on the eve of American Civil War. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Abraham Lincoln as President and Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. -
4 more states joined the Confederacy
Convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln, the seven states of the Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) seceded from the Union. When the war began with the firing on Fort Sumter, they were joined by four states of the upper South (Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia). -
1st battle of Bull Run
Known as the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas), the engagement began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. After fighting on the defensive for most of the day, the rebels rallied and were able to break the Union right flank, sending the Federals into a chaotic retreat towards Washington. -
The Homestead Act
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Union come back
April 25, Union soldiers capture New Orleans. -
Battle of Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. He was able to check the Confederate advance into the north. After a string of Union defeats, this tactical victory provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. It remains the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties. -
The battle of Gettysburg
General Lee organized 75,000 troops who ended up in the largest battle of the Civil War against a Union force of 97,000. After three days of intense fighting, General Pickett led a one mile march across an open field with 15,000 Confederate troops aimed at the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Facing an enemy force nearly twice the size of his own, Lee daringly split his troops in two, confronting and surprising Union Gen. Joseph Hooker. Though Hooker still held numerical superiority, he did not press this advantage, instead falling back to defensive positions. . Lee’s victory came at a high cost, however. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, one of his most trusted generals, was mortally wounded by friendly fire during the battle. -
35th State
Union West Virginia is admitted as the 35th state - its constitution mandates the gradual emancipation of slaves. -
LIncoln
November 19, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. 117 years later Andrew Pinzler is born. -
Wade Davis Bills
July 4, Lincoln pocket-vetoes the Wade-Davis bill -
March of destruction
September 2, Sherman burns Atlanta and continues his march to the sea -
Lincoln vs .Andrew Johnson
Lincoln is inaugurated for his second term with Andrew Johnson as vice-president, pledging "malice toward none, and charity for all." -
General Lee Surrenders
After General Sherman’s March to the Sea in November of 1864 and the fall of Richmond in April 1865, General Lee’s Confederate Army found themselves surrounded, weak and exhausted. After a series of notes between the two generals, they finally agreed to meet at the McClean house in the village of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. -
Lincoln assassinated
Lincoln is assassinated at Fordís Theater by John Wilkes Booth. -
Rebuild the South
Johnson moves to Reconstruct the South on his own initiative He prefers to call the process "restoration", emphasizing his leniency towards the rebelling Southern states. Former Confederate military leaders and patricians with taxable property over $20,000 are disenfranchised until further notice; only 10% of enfranchised Southern population needs to take an oath of loyalty before readmission. -
Georgia
Georgia expels blacks from its legislature. Military rule is instantly reimposed on the state and earlier readmission to representation in Congress is revoked. Ratification of the 14th amendment is now made obligatory before representation in Congress will be allowed. -
New President
Grant is elected President. -
14 Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in July 1869, and gave basic civil rights to all citizens. It made all people born or naturalized in the United States full citizens with protection of life, liberty, and property -
15 Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in February 1870 and guaranteed citizens the right to vote without an account of race, color or previous servitude. This amendment did not however include women. -
KKK
Force Acts (KKK Acts) passed by Congress seek to enforce 15th Amendment by giving Federal protection for black suffrage, and authorize the use of Federal troops against the KKK. These acts are declared unconstitutional in Cruikshank v. U.S. in the 1880ís. -
Civil Rights 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875 states that no citizen can be denied the equal use of public facilities such as inns, restaurants, etc. on the basis of color -
The Great Sioux War
Was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 - 1877 between the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne and the government of the United States.The cause of the war was the desire of the U.S. government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills, settlers began to encroach onto Native American lands,the Sioux & Cheyenne refused to cede ownership to the U.S Native Americans believe the Cheyenne were the primary target of the U.S.campaign. -
Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1877 results in end to military intervention in the South and the fall of the last radical governments; restores "home rule" in the South -
The Dawes Act
Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.It was amended in 1891, in 1898 by the Curtis Act, and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.The objectives of the Dawes Act were to lift the Native Americans out of poverty and to stimulate assimilation of them into mainstream American society. -
Spanish- American War; acquisition of Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines
Revolution against Spain began in April 1896. The Spanish–American War came to the Philippines on May 1, 1898, when the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Commodore George Dewey, defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron. The treaty of Paris: The treaty transferred control of the Philippines from Spain to the United States.Was not recognized by the Philippine revolutionaries, who declared war against the United States on June 2, 1899. -
The Philippine Organic Act
was a basic law for the Insular Government that was enacted by the United States Congress on July 1, 1902. It is also known as the Philippine Bill of 1902 and the Cooper Act, after its author Henry A. Cooper. The approval of the act coincided with the official end of the Philippine–American War. -
President Roosevelt issues the Monroe Corollary
stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition to the United States.At the same time, noted that the U.S. would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies. was issued in 1823 at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved or were at the point of gaining independence from the Portuguese and Spanish Empires. -
First World War breaks out in Europe
In the 20th century, European nations formed competing military alliances. War finally broke out in 1914 when a Serbian nationalist assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria. Austria went to war against Serbia, and many other countries joined in. On one side were the British, the French and Russian empires, Italy, and Japan (the Entente Powers). On the other side were the Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Turks (the Central Powers). -
USA enters the First World War
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and in February 1915 Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. -
President Wilson issues the Fourteen Points
was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. Was a speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I. Some belligerents gave general indications of their aims, but most kept their post-war goals private. The Fourteen Points in the speech were based on the research of the Inquiry, a team of about 150 advisers into the topics likely to arise in the anticipated peace conference -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed separate treaties. the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations.
