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wilmot proviso
a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico; passed in the house but failed in the senate
election of 1848
Zachary taylor elected
Provisions of the compromise of 1850
Stricter fugitive slave law, admission of California as free state, popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah Territories, ban on slave trading in DC
Homestead act
which granted up to 160 acres of western land to loyal citizens
Farmers Alliance
an alliance that established “exchanges” that would issue loans to farms and sell their crops
1848
free soil party organized
1842
Aroostok war over main boundary
Webster Ashburton Treaty
1845
United States Annexes Texas
1846
United States settles oregon dispute with britain
1846-1848
Mexican-American War
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; gold found in california
1849
California Gold Rush
1850
Compromise of 1850, including fugitive slave law
clayton-bulwer treaty with Britain
1853
gadsen purchase from mexico
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party organized
1852
Harriet Beecher stowe publishes Uncle toms cabin
1860
Lincoln wins four way race for presidency
south carolina secedes from the union
1861
Start of Civil war
fort sumter fired upon
seven seceding states form confederate states of america
1862
Homestead Act
pacific railway act
Morrill Act provides public land for higher education
1859
Nevada Comstock lode (silver) discovered
1887
Dawes Severalty Act
1890
Census Bureau declares frontier line ended
emergence of populist party
Battle of wounded knee
1893
Frederick Jackson turner publishes “the significance of the frontier in American History”
1924
Indians Granted US citizenship
1934
Indian Reorganization Act
1881
Booker t washington becomes head of tuskegee institute
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act
1869
Transcontinental railroad joined near ogden utah
1875
Civil Rights act of 1875
1876
Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis
1877
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction ends
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes “separate but equal” doctrine
1865
Lincoln assassinated
end of civil war
freedmen’s bureau established
Southern states pass black codes
Lee surrenders to grant at Appomattox
13th amendment ratified
1866
congress passes 14th amendment
1867
United states purchases alaska from russia
1870
15th Amendment ratified
1863
Battle of Gettysburg
Fall of Vicksburg
Describe the Homestead Act
a plot of land approx 160 acres in size was awarded to any US citizen who pledged to settle the land for at least 5 years
applicants had to be at least 21 years old
ex-confederate soldiers couldn’t apply
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