Key Dates

Question 1

Invention of the Cotton Gin

Answer 1

1793

Question 2

Fugitive Slave Act passed

Answer 2

1793

Question 3

U.S Slave Trade with Africa ends

Answer 3

1808

Question 4

The Missouri Compromise

Answer 4

1820

Question 5

Andrew Jackson elected president

Answer 5

1829

Question 6

Mexico bans American immigrants from entering Texas

Answer 6

1830

Question 7

Nat Turner’s revolt

Answer 7

1831

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator

Answer 8

1831

Question 9

National Anti-Slavery Society formed

Answer 9

1833

Question 10

Texas vs. Mexico at the Alamo ( Texan defeat)

Answer 10

March 1836

Question 10

The Battle of San Jacinto

Texas claims its independence

Answer 10

April 1836

Question 11

Elijah Lovejoy is murdered in Illinois,becomes the first abolistionist martyr

Answer 11

1837

Question 13

Polk sends troops north of the Rio Grande river to provoke war with Mexico
(to lead to the annexation of California and New Mexico)

Answer 13

1846

Question 14

Mexican troops attack 16 U.S. troops, Mexican-American war starts

Answer 14

1846

Question 15

The failed Wilmot proviso

Answer 15

August 1846

Question 16

James Polk becomes 11th president

Answer 16

1845

Question 17

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo admits California and New Mexico to the USA

Answer 17

1848

Question 18

Mexican American war begins

Answer 18

1846

Question 19

Texas admitted to the union as a single state

Answer 19

1845

Question 20

Irish Potato Famine

Answer 20

1845-6

Question 20

12th president Zachary Taylor (Whig) elected president

Answer 20

1849

Question 22

13th president Millard Fillmore (Whig) elected president

Answer 22

1850

Question 23

Know-Nothings established

Answer 23

1849

Question 25

The Gadsden purchase

President Pierce’s attempts to purchase Mexican territory to assist the building of a railway to Southern Pacific

Answer 25

1853

Question 26

Harriet Beecher-Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Answer 26

1851

Question 27

The Ostend Manifesto issued | If Spain refused to sell Cuba to America then they would declare war

Answer 27

October 1854

Question 28

Plate county defensive association formed by Senator Atchison (Pledged to ensure that Kansas would become a slave state)

Answer 28

1854

Question 29

14th president Franklin Pierce (democrat) elected

Answer 29

1854

Question 30

Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company | formed to sponsor people to settle in the west

Answer 30

1854-5

Question 31

Kansas-Nebraska act | Divided Nebraska into two, leaving the two regions to decide on slavery

Answer 31

1854

Question 33

1st territorial legislature election in Kansas

Answer 33

1855

Question 34

Pottawamie creek massacre

Answer 34

1856

Question 35

Bleeding sumner

Answer 35

1856

Question 36

Sacking of Lawrence

Answer 36

1856

Question 37

Buchanan (Democrat) elected president

Answer 37

November 1856

Question 38

The lecompton pro-slavery constitution supported by Buchanan

Answer 38

1857

Question 39

The Dred Scott verdict rules the Missouri compromise line illegal and that Scott could not sue for his freedom

Answer 39

1857

Question 40

Democrat party splits

Answer 40

1857

Question 41

The panic

Answer 41

1857

Question 42

Mid-term elections: Lincoln - Douglas debates

Answer 42

1858

Question 43

John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry

Answer 43

October 1859

Question 44

Lincoln wins presidential election

Answer 44

1860

Question 45

South Carolina seceded

Answer 45

1860

Question 46

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana seceded

Answer 46

1861

Question 47

Texas secedes from the Union

Answer 47

February 1861

Question 48

Kansas joins the Union as a free gift

Answer 48

January 1861

Question 49

Confederacy established at Montgomery

Answer 49

4th February 1861

Question 50

Battle of first Manassas (confed victory)

Answer 50

1861

Question 51

The Peninsula campaign headed by McClellan (confed win)

Answer 51

1862

Question 52

The seven days (confed victory)

Answer 52

June-July 1862

Question 53

Robert E.Lee takes command of Army of North Virginia

Answer 53

June 1862

Question 54

Battle of Shiloh ( Union win)

Answer 54

April 1862

Question 55

Second Manassas (confed win)

Answer 55

August 1862

Question 56

Battle of Antietam (Draw but confed retreat)

Answer 56

September 1862

Question 57

Emancipation proclamation takes effect

Answer 57

January 1863

Question 58

Battle of Chnacellorsville (confed win)

Answer 58

May 1863

Question 59

Battle of Gettysburg (union win)

Answer 59

July 1863

Question 60

Fall of Vicksburg (union win)

Answer 60

4th July 1863

Question 61

Riots in New York over conscription

Answer 61

July 1863

Question 62

Battle of chickamauga (union win) CHECK THIS

Answer 62

September 1863

Question 63

Battle of Chattanooga (union win)

Answer 63

October 1863

Question 64

Congress passes a bill authorising equal pay, equipment, arms and health-care for African American troops

Answer 64

June1864

Question 65

Capture of Atlanta by General Sherman (union win)

Answer 65

September 1864

Question 66

Lincoln re-elected president

Answer 66

November 1864

Question 67

Sherman begins March through Georgia

Answer 67

November 1864

Question 68

Surrender at Appomattox

Answer 68

10th April 1865

Question 69

Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John w. Booth

Answer 69

April 1865

Question 70

Freedmen bureau set up

Answer 70

March 1865

Question 71

Lincoln's proclamation of the Ten percent plan

Answer 71

December 1863

Question 72

Wade-Davis bill proposed but vetoed by Lincoln

Answer 72

1864

Question 73

Andrew Johnson becomes president

Answer 73

April 1865

Question 74

Black delegation (led by Frederick Douglass) meets Andrew Johnson at White House to advocate black suffrage. Johnson expresses opposition, ends in controversy

Answer 74

February 1866

Question 75

Civil Rights Act passed

Answer 75

April 1866

Question 76

46 African -Americans killed in race riots in Memphis, Tennessee by white civilians and police. 90 homes, 12 schools, 4 churches burnt down.

Answer 76

May 1866

Question 77

First meeting of Ku Klux Klan

Answer 77

1866

Question 78

Race riots in New Orleans

Answer 78

July 1866

Question 79

Military Reconstruction Act

Answer 79

March 1867

Question 80

14th Amendment ratified to the constitution, citizenship to all Americans

Answer 80

1868

Question 81

Command of the Army Act

Answer 81

1867

Question 82

Tenure of Office Act

Answer 82

1867

Question 83

Impeachment of Johnson failed

Answer 83

February 1868

Question 84

Ulysses S. Grant elected president

Answer 84

November 1868

Question 85

300 blacks killed in Opelousas Massacre, Louisiana

Answer 85

September 1868

Question 86

Fifteenth amendment ratified

Answer 86

1870

Question 87

Pinckney B.S Pinchback elected first black governor (Louisiana)

Answer 87

1872

Question 88

Congress approves second Civil Rights Act that guarantees equal rights to blacks in public accommodations and jury duty

Answer 88

March 1875

Question 89

The slaughterhouse case declares 14th amendment to only protect national rights

Answer 89

1873

Question 90

Ku klux klan Act implemented

Answer 90

1871

Question 91

Ku Klux Klan Act and 1875 Civil rights act deemed unconstitutional

Answer 91

1883

Question 92

Disputed presidential election between Hayes and Tilden

Answer 92

1876

Question 93

Presidential compromise

Answer 93

1877

Question 94

The crittenden compromise rejected

Answer 94

December 1860

Question 95

First shots fired at Fort Sumter

Answer 95

12th April 1861

Question 96

Jefferson Davis elected provisional president

Answer 96

9th February 1861