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Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book of African-American mistreatment ans slavery shows a darker shade of southern life.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War. American claims about half of Mexico's territory.
War erupts due to attack on manipulated troops sent by Polk, leading to a war for Mexican territory.
Single battle exceeded combined casualties of all previous US wars, sets tone for Civil War.
Democratic candidate James Polk wins the presidency by a slim majority of 1.4%, surpassing Henry Clay.
1856
John Brown
1868
14th Amendment Added
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1848
Free Soil Party Formed
Repeals Missouri Compromise, and shatters the Whig party on the topic of slavery, leads to the formation of the Republican party.
John Brown kills 5 pro-slavery activists at an abolitionist gathering, this spawns conflicts in Kansas and Missouri which create "Bleeding Kansas"
Antislavery Whigs and the Liberty party join to form the Free Soil Party opposing slave territory in land acquired from Mexico.
1864
Draft set in Action for Union
1857
Panic
Party formed to oppose Catholicism and immigrants, and supporting cultural assimilation runs as a true party for the first time.
Texas joins the US officially, creating both a slavery dispute as well as Mexican-American disputes
A new economic panic of 1857 arises due to business failures.
1870
15th Amendment Added
Harriet Tubman assists 300 fleeing slaves make their way to the north.
1845
Irish Potato Famine
1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
1865
Gen. Robert E. Lee Surenders
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox after loss at Petersburg, Civil War ends.
Irish Potato famine destroys the livelihood and sustenance of countless irishmen, thus causing an influx of unskilled labor in the US that would help fuel industrialization.
Admits California as a free state, while voters in New Mexico and Utah territories are able to decide if they wish to have slavery.
Panic of 1873
1864
Lincoln Gives Emancipation Proclamation Freeing Slaves in the South.
1850
Fugitive Slave Act
1849
Gold Rush
1869
Black Friday
Part of the Compromise of 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act makes the punishment for fugitive slaves greater by making the federal government responsible for the apprehension and return of all escaped slaves, and facilitates the job for slave catchers, as well as denying the slaves a jury trial.
People across the nation and the world flock to California in hopes of striking rich, some are successful, often in ways not originally planned, while most are not. This however solidifies both California and the territory.
Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot suggests slavery be banned in all new territory acquired from Mexico. He is unsuccessful.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules (7 to 2) that slavery is protected by the Constitution, and a ban would be unconstitutional.
John Quincy Adams calls for a repeal of the Gag Rule, 78% of democrats agree, as well as all northern Whigs.
1848
Gold Found
in California
1865
KKK Forms
Gold found in California, this will spawn the Gold Rush in the following year.