Conflict across America KEY DATES

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1820
Missouri Compromise - agreed no slave states above line of latitude 36 degrees north.
1 of 18
1850
Compromise of 1850 agreed.
2 of 18
1851
Fort Laramie Treaty (First)
3 of 18
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
4 of 18
1856
Bleeding Kansas
5 of 18
1857
Mountain Meadow Massacre (September)
6 of 18
1858
Colorado Gold Rush - breached FL Treaty
7 of 18
1859
John Brown tried to seize Harpers Ferry
8 of 18
1860
Lincoln elected President of USA
9 of 18
1861
American Civil War begins
10 of 18
1st January 1863
Emancipation Proclamation Act (temporary war measure) freed slaves in second states (not border) to deplete south workforce and increase union army size (with freed slaves)
11 of 18
1862-7
Indian Wars e.g. Cheyenne-fighting over land
12 of 18
1864
Sand Creek Massacre
13 of 18
1865
American Civil War ended 625,000 dead
14 of 18
1866
Fetterman Massacre
15 of 18
1868
Second Fort Laramie Treaty
16 of 18
1869
Transcontinental Railway completed
17 of 18
1896
Utah became a state (after polygamy ban)
18 of 18

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Compromise of 1850 agreed.

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1850

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Front

Fort Laramie Treaty (First)

Back

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Card 4

Front

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Back

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Card 5

Front

Bleeding Kansas

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