APUSH Unit 5 Important Dates

Election of James K. Polk

1844

Texas Annexation and coining of "Manifest Destiny"

1845

The Mexican-American War

1846-1848

The Wilmot Proviso proposal

1846

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Seneca Falls Convention, and Free Soil Party

1848

California Gold Rush

1849

Fugitive Slave Act and CA statehood

1850

Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

Kansas-Nebraska Act and Republican Party

1854

"Bleeding Kansas" and The Brooks-Sumner Affair

1856

Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

1857

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

1858

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

1859

Election of Abraham Lincoln and South Carolina secession

1860

Fort Sumter and First Battle of Bull Run

1861

Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, and Battle of Antietam

1862

Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg

1863

Sherman's March to the Sea

1864

Appomattox, Lincoln's Assassination, and 13th Amendment

1865

Freedmen's Bureau

1865

14th Amendment and Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

1868

First Transcontinental Railroad

1869

15th Amendment ratified

1870

Panic of

1873

End of Reconstruction

1877