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A battle between Mexico and Texas in which Texas gained its independence

Unit II Timeline

Social Issues of the 1840's

1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act

The south side were in a hurry to permit Nebraska territory This act would let them have slave territories that were previously unavailable.

Some of the social issues during the 1840's were child labor, alcoholism, discrimination of women, African-Americans, and immigrants from Ireland and Germany. These issues were addressed in part by the movement known as the Second Great Awakening, which was a change in religious belief from predestination to personal agency in eternal salvation.

1803 Louisiana Purchase

Indian Removal Act 1830

War of 1812

This purchase doubled the size of the United States. It was purchased from France and opened up the western frontier of the U.S.

Election of 1860

1848-1849 California Gold Rush

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln won the support of the northern states and the union in a country divided by the issue of slavery. No candidate claimed they would abolish slavery, but southern states did not trust the Republican President and began seceding from the union.

Workers found made a discovery of gold,. Soon enough (a year) nearly ten thousand people migrated to John Statter's mill in hopes of riches.

This was a law passed by Andrew Jackson that gave United States permission to take Native American lands in exchange for lands west of the Mississippi River. There were two Supreme Court cases regarding this legislation, and even though Court Justice John Marshall declared the law unconstitutional in the second case, Andrew Jackson ignored the ruling.

This war between the Britain and the United States resulted in the growth of American patriotism, the destruction of the first White House, the creation of our National Anthem by Francis Scott Keynes, and the decrease of Native American resistance.

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1825 Gold Discovered on Cherokee Land

John Brown Raids Harper's Ferry 1859

1846-1848 Mexican-American War

1808 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Ends

1836 The Alamo

In 1859 John Brown, a radical abolitionist, tried to raid an armory in Virginia to steal guns and give them to slaves for a mass uprising. It failed and he was later executed

The trading of slaves between Africa, Europe, and North America ended after over 300 years.

This war started over the territory of Texas and its border. At the end of the war, the United States gained California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah, Colorado, and Nevada through the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

White settlers found gold in Cherokee Rivers, increasing their desire for Cherokee lands. After this moment, more and more white settlers begin forcing their way into Cherokee Land.

1804 Lewis and Clark explore Louisiana territory

1857 Dred Scott Case

1820 The Missouri Compromise

The Missouri compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Maine to become a free state to balance the free and slave states. Slavery was also excluded from expanding to northern territory.

Dred Scott was an enslaved african american man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and his family in the Dred Scott V. Sandford case of 1857.