U.S history timeline by Briasia Fowler

Declaration of Independence (1776)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-03 15:58:12 UTC

summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.

Missouri compromise (1820)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-03 16:19:23 UTC

they wanted everything to stay in place

Wilmot proviso (1846)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-03 16:27:37 UTC

slavery would be banned

Gold rush (1848)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-03 16:41:52 UTC

if people found gold they wanted it all to them self because they knew how much it was worth

Ft. Sumter (1860)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-19 16:30:02 UTC

Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-19 16:31:09 UTC

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, saying its the 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."

Gettysburg & Vicksburg (July 4, 1863)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-19 16:32:33 UTC

Union victory surrendered

March to the Sea (1864)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-19 16:35:29 UTC

after the march to the sea a lot was lost, almost everything was lost.

Appomattox Courthouse (1865)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-19 16:38:28 UTC

They were in the courthouse all day

End of Civil War (1865)

briasiafowler — 2023-10-31 16:22:26 UTC

successful attempt to rebuild the country and grant civil rights to freed slaves.

13 amendment (1865)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-03 15:40:52 UTC

decided to abolish slavery

Reconstruction begins (1865)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-03 15:43:38 UTC

which went into operation in several states but which Radical Republicans opposed.

Compromise of (1850)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-03 15:47:43 UTC

California being admitted as a free state and the borders of Texas being settled, with areas ceded by Texas becoming the recognized territories of New Mexico and Utah.

Kansas-Nebraska act (1854)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-03 15:51:28 UTC

created two new territories and tried to sway the votes

Bleeding Kansas (1854)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-03 15:53:46 UTC

Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.

dred scott v sandford (1857)

briasiafowler — 2023-11-06 18:53:12 UTC

they couldn't promise enslaved people protection

Start of the Civil War 1861

briasiafowler — 2023-11-07 00:04:53 UTC

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.

Harpers Ferry (1859)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:17:45 UTC

John Brown led the slaves into Virginia which led to assault.

Election of 1860

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:18:28 UTC

noteworthy for the exaggerated sectionalism and voter enthusiasm in a country that was soon to dissolve into civil war.

Reconstruction Act of 1867

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:19:24 UTC

The Reconstruction Acts were four laws passed by the 40th United States Congress in 1867 to require Southern States to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

14th Amendment (1868)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:19:44 UTC

passing the law for everyone to have equal protection of the laws

Transcontinental RR Completed (May 10, 1869)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:19:56 UTC

so they could reach places

Rockefeller founds Standard Oil (1870)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:21:39 UTC

He founded oil and started a compmnay

15th Amendment (1870)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:21:59 UTC

everybody can vote no matter what race they are or if they own land!

Carnegie founds US Steel (1875)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:22:25 UTC

Carnegie's first order is for 2000 steel rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Reconstruction Ends (1877)*

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:22:40 UTC

when Republicans failed to pass the Federal Elections Bill and secure Black voters' rights.

Compromise of 1877

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:22:52 UTC

unwritten political deal to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence

Railway Strike of 1877

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:23:06 UTC

the country's first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strike in the nation's history

Haymarket Square (1886)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:23:34 UTC

a bomb detonates near Haymarket Square in Chicago after police arrive to break up a rally in support of striking workers

Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:24:27 UTC

lots of shootings and millions of deaths

Pullman Strike (1894)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:24:38 UTC

a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest in June–July 1894.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

briasiafowler — 2023-12-08 04:24:53 UTC

Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".