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Civil war>>>>>>>>Mexico War (1837 James T. Rapier…
Civil war>>>>>>>>Mexico War
1837
James T. Rapier was born
January 1846
President Polk orders U.S. troops into disputed territory, and starts a
Revolt
April 1846
Mexican and U.S. Troops clash near rio grande, and they wait for each one
Stay
May 1846
Congress declares war on Mexico
May 1846
General Taylor leads troops across the Rio grande
June 1846
Americans take control of California in the Bear Flag
Revolt
February 1846
General taylor wins control of northern mexico at Buena Vista
March 1847
General Scott invades Mexico near Veracruz
September 1847
Mexico city surrenders to scout
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1846
Jeremiah Harlason was born
1842
Joshia T. Wall was born
1842
Robert C. Delarge was born.
1842
Robert B. Eliot was born
1841
Blanche K Bruce
1827
Hiram R. Reveals was born
1836
Jefferson long was born
1831 | Nat Turner’s Rebellion
In August of 1831, a slave named Nat Turner incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Turner and approximately seventy cohorts killed around sixty white people. The deployment of militia infantry and artillery suppressed the rebellion after two days of terror.
1846 -1850 | The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot (D-FS-R PA) at the close of the Mexican- American War. If passed, the Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States as a result of the war, which included most of the Southwest and extended all the way to California. Wilmot spent two years fighting for his plan. He offered it as a rider on existing bills, introduced it to Congress on its own, and even tried to attach it to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. All attempts failed. Nevertheless, the intensity of the debate surrounding the Proviso prompted the first serious discussions of secession.
1850 | The Compromise of 1850
With national relations soured by the debate over the Wilmot Proviso, senators Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas managed to broker a shaky accord with the Compromise of 1850. The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South.
1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s fictional exploration of slave life was a cultural sensation. Northerners felt as if their eyes had been opened to the horrors of slavery, while Southerners protested that Stowe’s work was slanderous.
1854 -1861 | Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, narrowly passed while Congressmen brandished weapons and uttered death threats in the House chambers, overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise by allowing the settlers in the two territories to determine whether or not to permit slavery by a popular vote.
1859 | John Brown’s Raid
John Brown cut his teeth as a killer as an anti-slavery “Jayhawker” during Bleeding Kansas. In mid-October of 1859, the crusading abolitionist organized a small band of white allies and free blacks and raided a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to seize weapons and distribute them to Southern slaves in order to spark a wracking series of slave uprisings.
1860 | Abraham Lincoln’s Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected president, along with a republican congress. He was elected by a considerable margin in 1860 despite not being included on many Southern ballots. As a Republican, his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners.