Chronology test Polk through 1st Cleveland

Zachary Taylor

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Zachary Taylor

Nashville Convention

Zachary Taylor

Omnibus Bill—Henry Clay

Millard Fillmore

California enters Union as a free state

Millard Fillmore

New Mexico/Texas border dispute in favor of New Mexico

Franklin Pierce

Ostend Manifesto

Franklin Pierce

Henry David Thoreau Walden

Franklin Pierce

Know-Nothing Party

Franklin Pierce

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

Franklin Pierce

Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner clash

James Buchanan

Comstock Lode

James Buchanan

Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species

Andrew Johnson

Ex Parte Milligan

Andrew Johnson

Fort Laramie Treaty

Ulysses S. Grant

Yellowstone National Park

Ulysses S. Grant

Gold discovered in Black Hills, South Dakota

Ulysses S. Grant

Telephone patented, Alexander Graham Bell

Rutherford B. Hayes

Phonograph, Thomas Edison

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Mann v. Minois

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Henry George Progress and Poverty

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Incandescent lamp

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Salvation Army in U.S.

James A. Garfield

Theodore Roosevelt Winning of the West

Chester Arthur

Chinese Exclusion Act

Chester Arthur

Standard Oil Trust

Chester Arthur

First electric power station opens in New York City

Chester Arthur

Lester Frank Ward Dynamic Sociology

Chester Arthur

Mark Twain Huck Finn

Grover Cleveland

American Federation of Labor created

Grover Cleveland

Wabash v. Illinois

Grover Cleveland

Dawes Act

Grover Cleveland

Interstate Commerce Act [Commission] created

James K. Polk

Wilmot Proviso

James K. Polk

Seneca Falls Convention: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Zachary Taylor

Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

Millard Fillmore

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Franklin Pierce

Republican Party formed

Franklin Pierce

Potawatomi Massacre

James Buchanan

Harper's Ferry

James Buchanan

First oil well drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania

James Buchanan

Crittenden Compromise fails

Abraham Lincoln

Pacific Railway Act

Andrew Johnson

National Labor Union founded

Andrew Johnson

Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

Cattle drives begin

Andrew Johnson

Grange

Andrew Johnson

Knights of Labor founded

Ulysses S. Grant

Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant

Enforcement Acts

Ulysses S. Grant

Anthony Comstock, Society for the Suppression of Vice

Ulysses S. Grant

Comstock Law

Ulysses S. Grant

Mark Twain Gilded Age

Ulysses S. Grant

Slaughterhouse Cases

Ulysses S. Grant

Credit Mobilier

Ulysses S. Grant

WCTU Women Christian Temperance Union

Ulysses S. Grant

Civil Rights Act

Ulysses S. Grant

Battle of Little Big Horn

Ulysses S. Grant

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Railroad strike

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayesu

Bland-Allison Act

James A. Garfield

American Red Cross founded

James A. Garfield

Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor

Chester Arthur

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Grover Cleveland

NCFA National Colored Farmers Alliance

Grover Cleveland

Reduced protective tariffs and cut pensions for veterans

Grover Cleveland

Ghost Dance

Grover Cleveland

Haymarket Riot

James K. Polk

Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk

John O'Sullivan coins phrase "Manifest Destiny"

James K. Polk

Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

James K. Polk

Western Expansion

James K. Polk

Mass Irish Immigration due to potato famine

James K. Polk

Mexico rejects John Slidell's mission

James K. Polk

Oregon Territory "54, 40 or fight" compromise for 49th parallel

James K. Polk

Mexican War

James K. Polk

Bear Flag Republic in California

James K. Polk

Lewis Cass's principle of "popular sovereignty"

James K. Polk

Wisconsin and Iowa admitted as free states

James K. Polk

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

James K. Polk

Anti-Slavery Whigs & Democrats form Free Soil Party

James K. Polk

Discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California

Zachary Taylor

Gold Rush

Zachary Taylor

Introduction of the Compromise

Zachary Taylor

Personally opposes compromise

Millard Fillmore

Know-Nothing Party emerges

Millard Fillmore

Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore

New Mexico and Utah territories organized based on popular sovereignty

Millard Fillmore

No Slave Trade in Washington D.C.

Millard Fillmore

Texas given $10 million to compensate for border dispute with New Mexico

Millard Fillmore

Strict Fugitive Slave law

Millard Fillmore

Herman Melville Moby Dick

Millard Fillmore

Cumberland Road completed

Franklin Pierce

Underground Railroad

Franklin Pierce

Japan opened to world trade by Commodore Matthew Perry

Franklin Pierce

Gadsden Purchase

Franklin Pierce

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Franklin Pierce

Border Ruffians

Franklin Pierce

"Sack of Lawrence"

Franklin Pierce

Bleeding Kansas