APUSH unit 5/6

a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico; passed in the house but failed in the senate

Zachary taylor elected

Stricter fugitive slave law, admission of California as free state, popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah Territories, ban on slave trading in DC

which granted up to 160 acres of western land to loyal citizens

an alliance that established “exchanges” that would issue loans to farms and sell their crops

free soil party organized

Aroostok war over main boundary

Webster Ashburton Treaty

United States Annexes Texas

United States settles oregon dispute with britain

Mexican-American War

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; gold found in california

California Gold Rush

Compromise of 1850, including fugitive slave law

clayton-bulwer treaty with Britain

gadsen purchase from mexico

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party organized

Harriet Beecher stowe publishes Uncle toms cabin

Lincoln wins four way race for presidency

south carolina secedes from the union

Start of Civil war

fort sumter fired upon

seven seceding states form confederate states of america

Homestead Act

pacific railway act

Morrill Act provides public land for higher education

Nevada Comstock lode (silver) discovered

Dawes Severalty Act

Census Bureau declares frontier line ended

emergence of populist party

Battle of wounded knee

Frederick Jackson turner publishes “the significance of the frontier in American History”

Indians Granted US citizenship

Indian Reorganization Act

Booker t washington becomes head of tuskegee institute

Chinese Exclusion Act

Transcontinental railroad joined near ogden utah

Civil Rights act of 1875

Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis

Compromise of 1877

Reconstruction ends

Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes “separate but equal” doctrine

Lincoln assassinated

end of civil war

freedmen’s bureau established

Southern states pass black codes

Lee surrenders to grant at Appomattox

13th amendment ratified

congress passes 14th amendment

United states purchases alaska from russia

15th Amendment ratified

Battle of Gettysburg

Fall of Vicksburg

a plot of land approx 160 acres in size was awarded to any US citizen who pledged to settle the land for at least 5 years

applicants had to be at least 21 years old

ex-confederate soldiers couldn’t apply