America: Civil War and Westward Expansion Key Dates

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1787
Founding Fathers drew up the US Constitution
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1793
Invention of the cotton 'gin'
2 of 79
1808
USA declared African slave trade illegal
3 of 79
1831
January. Publication of The Liberator
4 of 79
1831
August. Nat Turner's revolt
5 of 79
1833
Formation of National Anti-Slavery Society
6 of 79
1803
Louisiana Purchase
7 of 79
1820
Missouri Compromise
8 of 79
1825
Erie Canal opened
9 of 79
1830
Indian removal Act
10 of 79
1836
Texas won independence from Mexico
11 of 79
1838
Trail of Tears
12 of 79
1845
Texas joined the USA
13 of 79
1846
May. Start of the Mexican War
14 of 79
1846
August. Wilmot Proviso
15 of 79
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
16 of 79
1850
The 1850 Compromise
17 of 79
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
18 of 79
1856
May. The sack of Lawrence
19 of 79
1856
'Bleeding Sumner'
20 of 79
1856
November. James Buchanan won presidential election
21 of 79
1857
Lecompton constitution supported by Buchanan
22 of 79
1857
Dred Scott decision
23 of 79
1858
Mid-term elections: Lincoln-Douglas debates
24 of 79
1859
John Brown's raid
25 of 79
1860
November. Lincoln elected president
26 of 79
1860
December. South Carolina seceded
27 of 79
1861
January. Mississppi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana seceded
28 of 79
1861
February. Texas seceded
29 of 79
1861
February. Confederacy established
30 of 79
1861
March. Lincoln inaugurated as president
31 of 79
1861
April. Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter
32 of 79
1861
April-June. Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee seceded
33 of 79
1861
Trent affair
34 of 79
1862
February. Legal Tender Act
35 of 79
1862
April. Introduction of conscription by the confederacy
36 of 79
1862
May. Homestead Act
37 of 79
1862
July. INtroduction of the Internal Revenue Act in the Union
38 of 79
1863
July. New York draft riots
39 of 79
1863
September. Laird rams crisis
40 of 79
1861
July. First Manassas
41 of 79
1862
April. Battle of Shiloh
42 of 79
1862
June-July. Seven Days battles
43 of 79
1862
August. Second Manassas
44 of 79
1862
Septmeber. Battle of Antietam
45 of 79
1862
December. Battle of Fredericksburg
46 of 79
1863
May. Battle of Chancellorsville
47 of 79
1863
July. Battle of Gettysburg
48 of 79
1863
July. Capture of Vicksburg
49 of 79
1863
September. Battle of Chickamauga
50 of 79
1864
March. Grant became general-in-chief
51 of 79
1864
May-June. Wilderness-Petersburg camaign
52 of 79
1864
September. Fall of Atlanta
53 of 79
1864
November.Lincoln re-elected president
54 of 79
1865
April. Fall of Petersburg and Richmond
55 of 79
1865
Lee surrendered at Appomattox
56 of 79
1861
First Confiscation Act
57 of 79
1862
July. Second Confiscation Act
58 of 79
1862
Emancipation Proclamation
59 of 79
1863
January. Emancioation Proclamation came into effect
60 of 79
1863
December. Lincolns Ten Percent Plan
61 of 79
1864
Wade-Davis bill
62 of 79
1865
April. Lincoln assassinated. Andrew Johnson became president
63 of 79
1865
December. Thirteenth Amendment added to the Constitution
64 of 79
1866
Civil Rights Act
65 of 79
1867
Military Reconstruction Act
66 of 79
1868
Fourteenth Amendment added to the Constitution
67 of 79
1870
Fifthteenth Amendment added to the Constitution
68 of 79
1877
Rutherford Hayes inaugurated president
69 of 79
1858-9
Pikes Peak gold rush
70 of 79
1859
Comstock Lode discovered
71 of 79
1862
May. Homestead Act
72 of 79
1862
July. Pacific Railroad Act
73 of 79
1862
September. Sioux War broke out in Minnesota
74 of 79
1864
Sand Creek Massacre
75 of 79
1869
Transcontinental railway completed
76 of 79
1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn
77 of 79
1887
Dawes Act
78 of 79
1890
Battle of Wounded Knee
79 of 79

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