Unit 3 Timeline (1840-1877)

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Nat Turner's Rebellion

1831

The Mexican War

1846 - 1848

The Compromise of 1850

1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published

1852

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1857

Election of 1860

1860

First Secession

1861

The Battle at Fort Sumter

1861

Emancipation Proclamation

1862

The Battle of Antietam

1862

Battle of Gettysburg

1863

13th Amendment

1865

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

April 14, 1865

14th Amendment

1868

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

1868

15th Amendment

1870

Freedmen's Bureau Created

1872

Civil Rights Acts of 1875

1875

Compromise of 1877

1877