APUSH unit 5/6

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