Conflict,
War, and Reconstruction
Chapter 12 - The Ferment of Reform, 1820-1860
Keywords and Quizzes
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Transcendentalism |
Henry David Thoreau |
Walt Whitman |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Herman Melville |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Emily Dickinson |
Brook Farm |
The Shakers |
Charles Fourier/Arthur Brisbane |
John Noyes |
Joseph Smith |
Brigham Young |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
NY Female Moral |
Reform Society |
Angelina and Sarah Grimke |
Sojourner Truth |
The Seneca Falls Convention |
Declaration of Sentiments |
Susan B. Anthony |
American Colonization Society |
David Walker |
Nat Turner |
William Lloyd Garrison |
The Liberator |
Frederick Douglass |
Fugitive Slave Law |
Chapter 13 - The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1860
Keywords and Quizzes
Stephen Austin |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
Manifest Destiny |
the Oregon Trail |
Californios |
James K. Polk |
Zachary Taylor |
Thomas Larkin |
John C. Freemont |
antislavery Whigs |
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo |
Wilmot Proviso |
Zachary Taylor |
49ers |
Compromise of 1850 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Fugitive Slave Act |
Franklin Pierce |
Ostend Manifesto |
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Republican Party |
“Know-Nothing” Party |
“Bleeding Kansas” |
James Buchanan |
Dred Scott v. Sandford |
Abraham Lincoln |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
John Brown |
The Election of 1860 |
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| People and Places |
Chapter 14 - Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
Keywords and Quizzes
Southern Secession |
The Crittenden Plan |
Fort Sumter, SC |
Jefferson Davis |
Robert E. Lee |
Winfield Scott |
Southern Strategy |
Northern Strategy |
Bull Run |
Antietam |
The Draft in the North and the South |
US Sanitary Commission |
Northern Advantages |
Southern Advantages |
Salmon P. Chase |
The Emancipation Proclamation |
Battle of Vickburg |
Battle of Gettysburg |
54th Massachusetts Infantry |
Ulysses S. Grant |
William Tecumseh Sherman |
scorched-earth campaign |
13th Amendment |
Sherman’s March to the Sea |
Appomattox Court House |
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| People | Places and Events | Timeline |
Chapter 15 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Keywords and Quizzes
Andrew Johnson |
Black Codes |
Joint Committee on Reconstruction |
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
14th Amendment |
Radical Republicans |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
Tenure of Office Act |
Impeachment of President Johnson |
15th Amendment |
Carpetbaggers |
Sharecroppers |
Ku Klux Klan |
the Whiskey Ring |
Election of 1877 |
Rutherford B Hayes |
The End of Reconstruction |
Expansion and Crisis
1820 |
The Missouri Compromise |
1830s |
The Second Great Awakening |
1831 |
The Liberator begins publication. – abolitionist become vocal |
| Nat Turner Rebellion | |
1835 |
Texas War for Independence |
1837 |
US recognizes the Republic of Texas |
1843 |
Oregon Trail |
1844 |
Election of 1844 –Polk (Dem) defeats Clay (Whig) |
1845 |
Texas annexation Bill |
1846 |
Mexican-American War |
1847 |
Wilmont Proviso – no slavery in new states formed from Mexican land – rejected |
1848 |
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo |
| Get territory of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming | |
| Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. | |
| Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY – headed by Mott and Stanton | |
| Election of 1848 – Taylor (Whig) defeats Cass | |
1850 |
Clay’s Compromise of 1850 |
| California free state | |
| Slave trade banned in Washington | |
| Fugitive Slave Law strengthened | |
1852 |
Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan to US trade |
| Election of 1852: Pierce (Dem) defeats Scott (Whig) | |
1853 |
Gadsden Purchase – buy land from Mexico to build RR |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Stowe | |
1854 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Ostend Manifesto – by Buchanan to take Cuba – rejected | |
1856 |
Pottawatomie Massacre: John Brown kills four pro-slavery people |
| Election of 1856: Buchanan (Dem) defeats Fremont (Rep –Free Soil) and Fillmore (Know Nothings) | |
1857 |
The Dred Scot Decision - allows for slavery in the North |
| Panic of 1857 – depression – Buchanan does nothing | |
1858 |
Lincoln – Douglas Debates – on extension of slavery into new territories |
1859 |
John Brown’s Raid – Harpers Ferry to free slaves |
1860 |
Crittenden Compromise – last attempt at amendment against barring slavery below 36’ 30 line - fails |
| Lincoln (Rep) defeats Douglas (Dem) |
The Civil War
1860 |
South Carolina secedes |
1861 |
The Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, SC |
| Lincoln increases the size of the army, restricts freedoms of press and speech | |
| Confederacy elects Jefferson Davis president of the CSA | |
| Kansas admitted as a free state | |
| Lincoln declares martial law in Maryland | |
| Battle of Bull Run - South wins | |
1862 |
Pacific RR Act - begin building transcontinental RR |
| Homestead Act passes - land for ag colleges | |
1863 |
Antietam |
| NYC Draft Riots | |
| The Battle of Gettysburg | |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | |
| Lincoln announces the 10% Plan | |
1864 |
Lincoln reelected |
| Wade-Davis Bill splits South in military districts, Congress is in control | |
1865 |
The war ends at Appomatox Courthouse |
Reconstruction