i hate a level history :"(

Louisiana Purchase (year)

1803

Louisiana Purchase (size)

828,000 square miles

Lewis and Clark Expedition (years)

1804–1806

Indian Removal Act

1830 law forcing Native Americans east of the Mississippi to relocate west

Trail of Tears

1838 forced relocation of Cherokee Nation; ~4,000 died

Texas declares independence from Mexico

1836

Texas becomes U.S. state

1845

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War; U.S. gains Southwest

Manifest Destiny

Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand coast to coast

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act strengthened; California free state; slave trade banned in D.C.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Allowed territories to decide slavery via popular sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas

Violence between pro- and anti-slavery groups in Kansas (1854–56)

Dred Scott Decision (1857)

Supreme Court ruled African Americans weren't citizens; Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories

John Brown’s Raid (1859)

Failed attempt to spark slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry

Abraham Lincoln elected president

1860

First state to secede from Union

South Carolina (December 1860)

Start of the Civil War

April 12, 1861 (Battle of Fort Sumter)

Confederate States of America

11 Southern states that seceded from the Union

Emancipation Proclamation

1863 decree freeing slaves in Confederate territory

Battle of Gettysburg

July 1–3, 1863; major Union victory and turning point

Union commanding general (1865)

Ulysses S. Grant

End of the Civil War

April 9, 1865 (Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House)

Lincoln assassinated

April 14, 1865

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery

14th Amendment

Granted citizenship to all born in the U.S.

15th Amendment

Gave voting rights regardless of race

Freedmen’s Bureau

1865 agency to help freed slaves and poor whites

Homestead Act (1862)

Gave settlers 160 acres of land if farmed for 5 years

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1869

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876 Sioux victory over Custer’s 7th Cavalry

Dawes Act (1887)

Aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890 killing of 250+ Lakota Sioux; ended Native resistance