Dates

donner party

1846

O'Sullivan

1840

Worlds largest republic

1840

James K. Polk (D)

11th President 1845-1849

Mexican troops kill US troops

Mar 9,1846

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Feburary 2 1848

Zachery Taylor (Whig)

12th President

1849-1850

Dies of cholera

Johns Brown Raid

October 16, 1859

Millard Filmore

1850-1853

*Thirteenth President

*Became president after Zachary Taylor died

Solomon Northrup

he published "Twelve Years a Slave" in 1853

Franklin Pierce (D)

1853-1857 14th president

Gadsden Purchase

1853

Kansas-Nerbraska Act

1854 repeal of the missouri compromise

bleeding kansas

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

James Buchanan (D)

15th President

1857-1861

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

1858

Abraham Lincoln (R)

1861-1865

First shots fired at FT.Sumter

January 9, 1861

Ft. Sumter falls

April 13, 1861

Lincoln calls for troops

April 15, 1861

1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

July 21, 1861

Ft. Donelson

Febuary 16, 1862

Shiloh Grant (U)

April 6, 1862

Sharpsburg (Antietam, McClellan (U)

September 17, 1862

Tariffs and the homestead act

1862

Morill land Grant act

1862

Lincoln abolishes slavery in DC

April 16 1862

slavery abolished in western territories

June 19,1862

changed from war of unification to war against slavery

Jan 1, 1863

Fredericksburg Burnside (U)

December 13, 1862

Chancellorsville, VA

May 1-5, 1863

Vicksburg, MS

May 18 to July 4th 1863

Gettysburg PA

July 1- July 4, 1863

Gettysburg Cemetery dedicated

Nov 19, 1863

Lincoln "With malice toward none; with charity"

March 4, 1865

Lee surrenders at appomattcic court house

April 9, 1865

Lincoln shot

April 14, 1865 dies on the 15th

Andrew Johnson (Pro-union democrat)

1865-1869

13th Amendment

1865; officaly ended slavery

civil rights act

1866,1875

Congressional/radical reconstruction

march 2, 1867

Jonhson Impeachment