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Slavery

1793:Fugitive Slave Act 1793: Africans In America
Fugitive Slave Act 1793
1808 Slave Trade Banned
Learn About Slavery
1808 Slave Trade Banned
Learn About Slavery
1827: New York Abolishes Slavery
1831-
William Lloyd Garrison
1835: Roger Taney Appointed Chief Justice
Taney Photo
1836:The GAG RULE in the HOUSE
GAG RULE
1838:John Quincy Adams Challenges the Gag Rule
1839: Amistad
Amistad Case
1844: Gag Rule Lifted
John Quincy Adams In CONGRESS
1844: Baptist Church Splits
1850: Cotton Is King In The South
Book Excerpt: Cotton Is King (1860)
COTTON PRODUCTION
African Americans In Slavery
Slavery Before the COTTON GIN
The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery
Middle Passage

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1803:Lewis & Clark
Frontier House
American Westward Expansion
1803:The Cabildo: Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase:MAP
Louisiana Purchase: Overview
Louisiana Territory MAP
Louisiana Purchase TREATY
1811 National Road
1811:National Road (Through the Wilderness)
National Road TIMELINE
National Road MAP
1821: Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe Trail: Museum
Santa Fe Trail TIMELINE
Views along the Santa Fe Trail
1821: Mexican Independence
Mexican Independence from Spain
1831: Trail of Tears Begins (TIMELINE)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
TIMELINES
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (Text)
TIMELINE: 1800-1900
1835: Texas Independence from Mexico
Texas Flags of Independence
Historic Texas Flags
Texas Independence TIMELINE
1843:Oregon Trail (MAP)
Oregon Trail:Historical Gazette
LINKS to the Oregon Trail
1845: US Annexes Texas
MAP: Territorial Expansion
US Annexes Texas MAP
Congressional Resolution 1845 (Document)
1846:Oregon Territory Obtained
"54- 40 Or Fight"
Oregon Territory Treaty (DOCUMENT)
1846: California Republic independent from Mexico
California Republic (FLAG)
Bear Flag Revolt
1846: Mexican War Begins
Mexican-American War Page
U.S.-Mexican War Page
The Mexican War
1847:Mormon Trail
Mormon Trail (MAP)
Mormon Trail (Hike It TODAY)
Mormon Trail (HISTORY)
1848-Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Ends Mexican War
1849:California Gold Rush
GOLD RUSH: Forty-Niners!
GOLD FEVER!
1853:Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden Purchase (Interactive MAP)
Gadsden Purchase in Brief

Industry

1793: Eli Whitney &
Cotton Gin
1793:Samuel Slater:Industry
Samuel Slater
The Story of Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater Page
1807:Robert Fulton's Steamboat
Steamboat: Fulton's
Steamboats of the Hudson River
INVENTION: STEAMBOAT
1825: Erie Canal Opens
1944: Samuel Morse Invents the Telegraph
1944: Samuel Morse Invents the Telegraph
1850s: Railroad Boom in America
Railroad History TIMELINE
1850 Railroad MAP

Steps To CIVIL WAR

1820: Missouri Compromise
Free/Slave Soil MAP 1820
Missouri Compromise (Document)
The Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 (MAP)
Compromise of 1850 (Documents)
MAP 1850 (Interactive)
A Book Shakes A Nation: Uncle Tom
1854:Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Text)
1856: Bleeding Kansas
Free Soilers vs. Border Ruffians
1857: Dred Scott Decision
Impact of Dred Scott
Dred Scott
Chief Justice Taney
1859:John Brown
Harper
Africans In American:John Brown
John Brown
1860:Abraham Lincoln elected President
Election of 1860 (MAP)
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
1861: Attack on Ft. Sumter

CIVIL WAR

American Civil War Homepage
History Place: Civil War
Tennessee Civil War
Civil War Center
Civil War Photographs
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Women Of The Civil War
Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War Manuscript Collection
Ken Burns: The Civil War
History Channel: The Civil War
Reconstruction In The States: 1867-1877
Documents of Reconstruction
Reconstruction: Texas
Reconstruction: Timeline
Election of 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes
Rise And Fall of Jim Crow
History of Jim Crow
Reconstruction: Tennessee State Museum
Reconstruction: Tennessee
Freedmen
Reconstruction Overview
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Reconstruction
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War