President Chronology APUSH Polk-1st Cleveland (only till Lincoln for now)

Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

John O’ Sullivan cons phrase “Manifest Destiny”

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Western Expansion

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Mass Irish Immigration due to the potato famine

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Mexico rejects John Slidell’s mission

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Oregon Territory “54, 40 or fight” compromise for the 49th parallel

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Willmot Proviso

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Mexican War

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Bear Flag Republic in California

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Lewis Cass’s principle of “popular sovereignty”

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Wisconsin and Iowa admitted as free states

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Anti-Slavery Whigs & Democrats form Free Soil Part organized

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Seneca Falls Convention: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

James K. Polk 1845-1849 Democrat

Gold Rush

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Introduction of the Compromise

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Personally opposes compromise

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Nashville Convention

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Omnibus Bill-Henry Clay

Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Whig

Know-Nothing Part emerges

Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig

What President has this compromise?

California enters Union as free state.

New Mexico and Utah territories organized based on popular sovereignty.

No Slave Trade in Washington D.C.

New Mexico/ Texas border dispute in favor of New Mexico

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

Strict Fugitive Slave Law

Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig

Herman Melville Moby Dick

Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig

Cumberland Road completed

Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Whig

Underground Railroad

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Japan opened to world trade by Commodore Mathew Perry

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Gadsden Purchase

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Ostend Manifesto

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Henry David Thoreau Walden

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Know-Nothing Party

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Republican Party formed

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Kansas - Nebraska Act

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Border Ruffians

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Topeka Constitution

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Pottawatomie Massacre

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

“Sack” of Lawrence

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Bleeding Kansas

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Preston Brooks/Charles Sumner clash

Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Democrat

Dred Scott

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Panic of 1857

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Hinton Helper Impending Crisis in the South

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Lecompton Constitution

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

First transatlantic cable; Permanent cable

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Harper’s Ferry

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Comstock Lode

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

South Caroline Succession

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Pony Express established

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Montgomery Convention; Confederate States of America

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Crittenden Compromise Fails

James Buchanan 1857-1861 Democrat

Fort Sumter

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Trent Affair

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

U.S Sanitary Commission created

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Civil War

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Monitor and Merrimac

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Homestead Act

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Morrill Land Grant Act

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Pacific Railways Act

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Antietam

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Habeas Corpus suspended nationwide

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

National Bank Act

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Enrollment Act—Draft

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Vicksburg

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Gettysburg

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

New York Draft Riots

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction “10% Plan”

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Wade Davis Bill (pocket veto)

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Sherman’s March

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Sand Creek Massacre

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Robert E. lee surrenders at the Appomattox Court House

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican

Assasinated April 14-1865- John Wilkes Booth

TAKE A WILD GUESS

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Presidential Reconstruction completed

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

13th Amendment

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Freedmen Bureau

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Black Codes Implemented in South

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Ex Parte Milligan

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

National Labor Union founded

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Civil Rights Act (1866)

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

KKK formed

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Congressional (Radical) Recontruction

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Tenure of Office Act

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Seward’s Folly [Alaska]

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Cattle drives begin

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Grange

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Smaller Indian reservations adopted

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Fort Laramie Treaty

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

14th Amendment

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Knights of Labor founded

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Impeachment Trial

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Transcontinental Railroad completed

Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Republican, Dem, Union

Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 Republican