Riley Oaks timeline 1820-1850 by Skyview iPads

1850- Compromise of 1850

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This was a fight over slavery and territory after the Mexican-American War. This compromise decided that California would be a slave state and that the Utah and New Mexico territory was still being decided whether they would be a free or slave state. While the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute was going on the slave trade was ended in Washington D.C.

1848- Free Soil Party

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The free soil party was a short lived political party that lasted from 1848 to 1852. A lot of the members were anti slavery from the Whig and Democratic parties. The presidential and vice presidential candidates were Martin Van Buren, John P. Hale, Charles Francis Adams, and George W. Julian.

July 19-20 Seneca Falls Convention 1948

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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention were held in Seneca Falls,New York. This convention was held over a span over two days July 19th and 20th. These meetings had six sessions total going over six different subjects and with that information they prepared the Declararion of Sentiments and other lists of solutions.

February 2 1948 The Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo

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The Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo also named Treaty of Peace, Limits, and Settlement between the United States of America and Mexican Republic. This treaty with the fall of its capital Mexico started nogotiating to end the Mexican-American war which is why the treaty was signed in Guadalope Hidalgo to end the war. Three people involved in the nogotiating of the treaty was Nicholas Trist, Winfield Scott, and Josè Joaquin de Herrera.

January 24 1948 James Marshall discovers gold

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The dicovery of gold started what would be the California Gold Rush at the exact spot in which James Marshall found the piece of gold. With his return to Sutters for the war had ended and shared his discovery to Sutter who ran further tests to see that it was a 23 karat piece of gold or a 96% pure piece of gold.

1848 August -Wilmot Provisio

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Wilmot Provisio was the person to propose the idea to ban slavery in any Mexican aquifer state. This event was one major event to influence the American Civil War with the idea to rid of slavery. This was passed through the House of Representatives but not in the senate until the Compromise 1850.

June 15 1848 the Oregon Treaty

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This was a treaty between the a United Kingdom and United States over the dispute of the Oregon boundary. The Oregon boundary was already joints shared by both Britain and the U.S.

May 13 1848 congress declares war on Mexico

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The two countries had been deteriorating and after Mexico intended to fight a defensive war. 2,000 Mexican Calvary crossed into the disputed territory which sparked the "Thorton Affair".But then in May 13 of 1846 congress declared war and it would begin.

December 29 1845 Texas admitts to the union as a slave state

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After they admitted to being a slave state Mexico broke diplomatic relation with the United States. Thinking that there borders were moving to the Rio Grande the Treaty of Guadalope Hidalga was signed the United States got full control over Texas with the boundary at the Rio Grande.

1845 July: John L. O’Sullivan declares that the United States has a “manifest destiny”

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John L. O'Sullivan published a issue of the "Democratic Review" that was titled "Annexation" which told the United States of America to admit that Texas has gone into the union. With concerns from the Senate about the expansion of slaves and possibility of a war in Mexico.

1839 La Amistad revolt

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Amistad was a slave ship that left Havana going to Puerto Principe, Cuba where the slaves were supposed to be taken. The ship carried 53 captives and one slave Sengbe Pieh ended up leading a revolt against the Spaniards the captives were delivered to Havana but on a ship Tecora there was another revolt by the captives using a file like tool to cut them loose revolted and successfully captured the ship

18December: the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma

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The Trail of Tears was forced relocations of Native Americans being moved to Oklahoma during the winter of 1838-1839 were a quarter of 18,000 american indians died. The Native Americans were forced to march to their designated destinations by local militias.The phrase "Trail of Tears" originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831.

1837 November 7: Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy becomes the abolitionist movement’s first martyr

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Lovejoy was considered to be a Martyr by the abolition movement and his brother Owen was the leader of the abolitionists of Illinois. So Owen and his brother Joseph wrote a memoir which was published by the Anti-slavery society in 1838. With his murder Elijah Lovejoy was considered to be "the first casualty of the civil war".

March: The Panic of 1837 begins and lasts until 1843

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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis because profits, prices and wages went down and unemployment went up. A speculative lending practices in western states, a sharp decline in cotton prices, a collapsing land bubble, international specie flows, and restrictive lending policies from Great Britain.

1836 May 25: The House of Representatives adopts the Gag Rule

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The gag rules were a series of tabled all such petitions, preventing them from being read or discussed. As that happened the Pickney Resolutions were signed written by Henry Pickney which led into the gag rule which was signed on May 26, 1836 and passed by the house.

1836 April 21: Gen. Sam Houston’s troops capture Santa Anna

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During the Battle of San Jacinto held in Texas was led by Sam Houston of the Texan Army. Later it was role that Santa Anna the president was captured and she ended up surrendering three weeks later he signed a Peace treaty saying that Mexico would leave Texas leaving it to be a independent country.

1836 March 6: Mexican troops storm the Texans at the Alamo

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The battle of the Alamo was a huge part of the Texas Revolution many sieges by the Mexican army led by President General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna. With the launched assault killed and inspired Texians to fight back against the Mexicans for there territory.

1836March 2: Texas declares its independence from Mexico

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The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed to show itself independent from Mexico as it's own country which started the Texas Revolution.

1834 Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna overthrows Mexico’s constitutional government

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The plan of Cuernava was a declaration made in Cuernava by President Santa Anna for his high clergy. With that triumph all the laws were enacted but was always repealed by congress. But a year later was accepted by congress and passed.

1833 December 4: The American Anti-Slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia

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The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison. Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown were two slaves that escaped that often talked at the meetings fro the society.

1833 March 15: South Carolina revokes its Ordinance of Nullification. Three days later, it nullifies the Force Act

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In the time of the Nullification Convention one of the Nullifications was to increase prices on things like cotton and the South Carolinians revoked against that agreement. Another Act to be Nullified was the Force Act during one of the final nullifications.

1833 March 2: Tariff of 1833

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The Tariff of 1833 also known as the compromise of 1833 proposed by Henry Clay and Charles Calhoun seen as a resolution for the Nullification Crisis was enacted under Andrew Jacksons Presidency.This Tariff prompted secession to the union by South Carolina this Tariff also led into many other Tariffs.

1832 November 24: South Carolina declares the federal tariff null and void

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South Carolina and called the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 to be unconstitutional, null, and void. South Carolina blamed the change in fortunes which led into the war of 1812 South Carolina only did this because it affected them more than any other state.

1832 April 6: The Black Hawk War

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Led by a chief by the name of Black Hawk a chief of the Sauk tribe led them into a small conflict between the United States and American Indians. The war erupted when Black Hawk led the British Band of 3 different tribes into battle. The Native Americans ended up crossing the Mississippi into the states of Iowa and Illinois and ended up staying there.

August 21: Nat Turner leads a slave insurrection in southern Virginia

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Nat turners rebellion was a actual slave rebellion that took place in SouthHampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner the amou t of slaves that died ranged from 55-65 which was said to be the highest number of fatalities in any slave uprising. After the rebellion Nat Turner went in to hiding for a long time.

1831 January 1: William Lloyd Garrison, publishes the first issue of the Liberator

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The Liberator was a Newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. This Newspaper was written for abolitionists and a lot of the subscribers were African Americans. These newspapers were made for 35 years in Boston with its last issue being in 1865.

1830 September 25: National Negro Convention

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After a long time of abolitions of northern free blacks a group of free African American Men had the first National Negro Convention. Lasting for 33 years this showed a growth of black activists in the nation. One event this led up to was the Cincinnati riot of 1829 led by black leaders.

1830 May 28: President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Acts

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These acts were passed by congress on May 28, 1830 during Andrew Jacksons Presidency. This law said that all Indians move west of the Mississippi in exchange for there ancient sacred homelands.

1829 David Walker issues his militant Appeal

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David Walker found the oppression of his other black friends very unbearable and saddening. He ended up moving to Charlestown, South Carolina for a African Methodist Espicocal Church. He also moved to Boston because slavery is abolished and so he started a clothing store.

1827 Samuel E. Cornish and John Brown Russwurm publish "Freedom’s Journal"

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The Freedom Journal was the first African American made newspaper that owned and operated in the United States. It was published weekly by Rev. Peter Williams and other free black men. It was superseded in 1829 by Rights of All which was sad because it was the very first operated and owned African American newspaper.

1823 The Monroe Doctrine

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The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy about the domination of the US continent.Any time Europeans tried to colonize in North or South America would be viewed as an act of aggression and there would be a conference. This was signed in 1823 during the presidency of James Monroe.

The Land Act of 1820

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This Land Act was saying that the ability to buy land domains in the United States in 1820. To encourage more sales they lowered the minimum price and minimum size. The lands were located in the congress in Ohio and in the Northwest Territory.

1820 The Missouri Compromise

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Was a United States federal statue created by a specific Henry Clay. It regulated slavery to the western territories like the Louisiana territory and also agreed by pro and anti slavery.