Apush Unit 4 Chronology

Front 1

1845

Back 1

Texas admitted to Union

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Ch. 13

Front 2

1846

Back 2

United States declares war on Mexico

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Ch. 13

Front 3

1846

Back 3

Wilmot Proviso approved by House, but not Senate

Hint 3

Ch. 13

Front 4

1848

Back 4

Gold found in California

Hint 4

Ch. 13

Front 5

1848

Back 5

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transfers Mexican lands to United States

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Ch. 13

Front 6

1848

Back 6

Free Soil Party forms

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Ch. 13

Front 7

1850

Back 7

Northern abolitionists reject Fugitive Slave Act

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Ch. 13

Front 8

1852

Back 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

Hint 8

Ch. 13

Front 9

1854

Back 9

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Ch. 13

Front 10

1854

Back 10

Republican Party forms

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Ch. 13

Front 11

1856

Back 11

Turmoil in Kansas undermines popular sovereignty

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Ch. 13

Front 12

1857

Back 12

Dred Scott v. Sanford allows slavery in US territories

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Ch. 13

Front 13

1858

Back 13

President Buchanan urges Congress to admit Kansas under the pro slavery Lecompton Constitution

Hint 13

Ch. 13

Front 14

1858

Back 14

Lincoln-Douglas debates for US Senate

Hint 14

Ch. 13

Front 15

1859

Back 15

John Brown raids federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

Hint 15

Ch. 13

Front 16

1860

Back 16

Abraham Lincoln elected president in four-way contest

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Ch. 13

Front 17

1860

Back 17

South Carolina secedes

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Ch. 14

Front 18

1861

Back 18

Confederates fire on Fort Sumter

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Ch. 14

Front 19

1862

Back 19

Congress passes Homestead Act and Transcontinental Railroad Act

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Ch. 14

Front 20

1862

Back 20

Union halts Confederates at Antietam

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Ch. 14

Front 21

1862

Back 21

Preliminary emancipation proclamation

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Ch. 14

Front 22

1863

Back 22

Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation

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Ch. 14

Front 23

1863

Back 23

Union wins at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

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Ch. 14

Front 24

1863

Back 24

New York draft riots

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Ch. 14

Front 25

1864

Back 25

William Tecumseh Sherman takes Atlanta

Hint 25

Ch. 14

Front 26

1864

Back 26

Lincoln reelected

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Ch. 14

Front 27

1865

Back 27

Robert E. Lee surrenders

Hint 27

Ch. 14

Front 28

1865

Back 28

Thirteenth Amendment

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Ch. 14

Front 29

1864

Back 29

Wade-Davis Bill killed by Lincoln's pocket veto

Hint 29

Ch. 15

Front 30

1865

Back 30

Lincoln assassinated

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Ch. 15

Front 31

1865

Back 31

Johnson implements restoration plan

Hint 31

Ch. 15

Front 32

1865

Back 32

Ex-Confederate states pass Black Codes to limit freed people's rights

Hint 32

Ch. 15

Front 33

1866

Back 33

Civil Rights Act passed over Johnson's veto

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Ch. 15

Front 34

1867

Back 34

Reconstruction Act

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Ch. 15

Front 35

1868

Back 35

Fourteenth Amendment ratified

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Ch. 15

Front 36

1870

Back 36

Congress passes Enforcement Laws to suppress Klan

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Ch. 15

Front 37

1874

Back 37

Sweeping Democratic gains in congressional elections

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Ch. 15

Front 38

1877

Back 38

Reconstruction officially ends

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Ch. 15

Front 39

1854

Back 39

United States "opens" Japan to trade

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Ch. 16

Front 40

1862

Back 40

Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota

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Ch. 16

Front 41

1862

Back 41

Morrill Act funds public state universities

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Ch. 16

Front 42

1864

Back 42

Yosemite Valley reserved as public park

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Ch. 16

Front 43

1869

Back 43

Transcontinental RR completed

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Ch. 16

Front 44

1869

Back 44

Wyoming women's suffrage

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Ch. 16

Front 45

1872

Back 45

Yellowstone National Park created

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Ch. 16

Front 46

1876

Back 46

Battle of Little Big Horn

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Ch. 16

Front 47

1877

Back 47

Nez Perce forcibly removed from ancestral homelands

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Ch. 16

Front 48

1879

Back 48

Exoduster migration to Kansas

Hint 48

Ch. 16

Front 49

1879

Back 49

John Wesley Powell presents Report on Arid Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States

Hint 49

Ch. 16

Front 50

1887

Back 50

Dawes Severalty Act

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Ch. 16