1850-1875
- 1853: Gadsden Purchase
- 1854
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Republican Party formed
- 1856
- Violence in Kansas
- Senator Sumner attacked in the Senate
- 1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- 1859: John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
- 1860
- Democratic Party splits apart
- Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States
- Lower South secedes
- 1861
- Confederate States of America formed
- Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
- Upper South secedes
- North is defeated at the first battle of Bull Run
- 1862
- Battle of Antietam
- Morill Tariff, Homestead Act
- Emancipation Proclamation issued (effective January 1, 1863)
- 1864
- Grant's wilderness campaign
- Sherman takes Atlanta
- Sherman's "March to the Sea"
- 1865
- Sherman takes South and North Carolina
- Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
- Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery
- Lincoln assassinated
- Andrew Johnson becomes President
- KKK formed
- 1867
- First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction
- Alaska purchased
- 1868
- Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights
- Johnson impeached
- 1870: Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds
- 1870s: Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority
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