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APUSH Unit 5: Civil War Causation

1820 - 1865

Dave Alagenio

1830

1850

1853

1842

1854

1820

1836

1846

1852

1854

Underground Railroad

Compromise of 1850

Gadsden Purchase

Webston-Ashburton Treaty

Bleeding Kansas

Missouri Compromise

Texas Revolution

Mexican-American War

"Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Kansas nebraska act

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APUSH Unit 5: Civil War Causation

1820 - 1865

Dave lagenio

1857

1861

1861

1859

1862

1854

1857

1860

1861

1861

Dred Scott Decision

Confederates Form

Fort Summer

John Brow's Raid

Homestead act

Ostend Manifesto

Buchanan's Presidency

Election of Abraham Lincoln

American Civil War

Confiscation acts

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1863

1865

Emancipation Proclamation

13th Amendment

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1854

Bleeding Kansas Act

Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

1920

Missouri Compromise

An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.

1857

Buchannan's Presidency

During his tenure, seven Southern states seceded from the Union and the nation teetered on the brink of civil war.

1861

Confiscation Act

The Confiscation Acts were laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South.

1860

Abraham Lincoln's Election

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

1865

13th Amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

1853

Gatsden Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.

1852

Uncle Tom's cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War

1857

Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.

1854

Ostend Manifesto

The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. slaveholding expansionists.

1836

Texas Revolution

A rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos against the centralist government of Mexico , caused by the refusal of many Texans, both Anglo and Mexican, to accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes" which placed almost total power in the hands of the Mexican national government

1861

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, formed by states that had seceded from the Union.

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce.

1830

Underground Railroad

A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada

1861

Fort Sumter

The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.

1842

Webston Ashburton Treaty

In 1842, Britain and the US signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty to settle the disputed borders between New Brunswick and Maine and in the Great Lakes area. The Treaty of Paris (1783) had only vaguely defined the northeastern borders of the newly created United States, and its ambiguity led to disputes.

1862

Homestead Act

The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.

1846

Mexican American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory.

1850

Compromise of --

The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

1859

John Brown's raid

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

1861

Confederates Form

Formed due to the belief that white supremacy and slavery were threatened by the November 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.