“MANIFEST DESTINY”

YOUNG AMERICA

McCORMICK, GOODYEAR, OTIS, PULLMAN, HOWE, HOE, & COLT

JOHN O’SULLIVAN (1845)

ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, & AUSTIN

OREGON & CALIFORNIA

PONY EXPRESS & TELEGRAPH

TEXAS

ELECTION of 1844

“54 40’ OR FIGHT!”

POLK’S WAR (1846-1848)

WILMOT PROVISO (1846)

ELECTION of 1848

FREE SOIL

“SECTIONAL CRISIS”

ZACHARY TAYLOR

COMPROMISE of 1850

FUGITVE SLAVE ACT (1850)

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854)

BLEEDING KANSAS (1856)

ELECTION of 1856

DRED SCOTT v. SANFORD (1857)

“HOUSE DIVIDED . . .” (1858)

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (1852)

GEORGE FITZHUGH

HARPER’S FERRY (1859)

ELECTION of 1860

 

“The WAR of INSURRECTION”

FT. SUMPTER (12-13 APR 1861)

BULL RUN (21 JULY 1861)

SHILOH (6-7 APR 1862)

ANTIETAM (17 SEPT 1862)

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

FREDERICKSBURG (13 DEC 1862)

DAVIS & VANCE/LINCOLN & CHASE

54^TH MASSACHUSETTS

GANGS of NEW YORK (JULY 1863)

GETTYSBURG (4 JULY 1863)

VICKSBURG (4 JULY 1863)

PETERSBURG (JUNE 1864-APR 1865)

APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
  (9 APR 1865)

“BATTLE FOR FREEDOM”

“BIRTH OF A NATION” (1915)

13^TH AMENDMENT (1865)

FREEDMAN’S BUREAU (1865)

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1865)
VOTING RIGHTS ACT (1866)

ANDREW JOHNSON

14^TH & 15^TH AMENDMENTS

PRESIDENT GRANT

KU KLUX KLAN

PANIC of 1873

“HOME RULE”

MISSISSIPPI PLAN (1875)

ELECTION OF 1876

CROP LIEN

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