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Unit 4 Timeline-Chapters 14-17

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  • Mexico gains independence from Spain

    Mexico gains independence from Spain

  • Americans are defeated at the Alamo

    Americans are defeated at the Alamo

  • John Tyler becomes president

    John Tyler becomes president

  • Americans and British agree to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

  • US annexes Texas

    US annexes Texas

  • Mexican War begins

    Mexican War begins

  • Most members of the Donner Party die en route to California

    Most members of the Donner Party die en route to California

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War

  • Free-Soil party organized

  • California gold rush begins

    California gold rush begins

  • Plains Indians agree to the Fort Laramie Treaty

  • US makes the Gadsden Purchase

    The US acquires 30,000 square miles from Mexico
  • Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • The Republican party is founded

  • A pro-slavery mob sacks Lawrence Kansas and John Brown retaliates with the Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Charles Sumner is caned by a pro-slavery congressman in the Senate

    Charles Sumner is caned by a pro-slavery congressman in the Senate

  • U.S. Supreme court issues the Dred Scott decision

    U.S. Supreme court issues the Dred Scott decision

  • Lecompton Constitution declares that slavery will be allowed in Kansas

  • Abraham Lincoln debates Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate race

  • John Brown and his followers' stage raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to incite a massive slave insurrection

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Crittenden Compromise is proposed

  • Trent affair commences when a union warship stops a British ship on the high seas and takes two Confederate agents into custody

  • Fort Sumter Falls to Confederate forces; Lincoln issues Call to Arms

  • First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

    First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

  • Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as president

    Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as president

  • Peninsular campaign

  • Battle of Shiloh, second Bull Run, and Antietam

  • Congress passes the Morrill Land Act

  • Congress guarantees the construction of a Transcontinental Railroad

  • Congress passes the Homestead Act

    Congress passes the Homestead Act

  • Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Gettysburg and Chattanooga

    Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Gettysburg and Chattanooga

  • Lincoln refuses to sign the Wade-Davis Bill

  • 13th Amendment is ratified

    13th Amendment is ratified

  • Congress sets up the Freedmen's Bureau

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln is assassinated

    Lincoln is assassinated

  • Ku Klux Klan is organized

    Ku Klux Klan is organized

  • Congress passes the Civil Rights Act

  • Congress passes the military Reconstruction Act

  • Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act

  • Fourteenth Amendment is ratified

    Fourteenth Amendment is ratified

  • Congress impeaches President Andrew Johnson; the Senate fails to convict him

  • Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction

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