Making of America

• 1793 = Invention of the Cotton Gin
• 1803 = Louisiana Purchase
• 1820 = Missouri Compromise
• 1830 - Indian Removal Act
• 1838 - Trail of Tears
• 1850 =

  • Henry clay compromise
  • Fugitive slaves act
• 1854 - Kansas Nebraska Act
• 1861 - 1865 = Civil War
• 1862 -

  • Second confiscations act
  • Contraband of war act
  • Pacific railroad act
  • Homestead act
  • Little crows war
• 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation (13th amendment)
• 1841 - Pre Emption Act
• 1847 - Salt Lake City (Mormons)
• 1849 - California gold rush
• 1859 - Pikes peak gold rush
• 1869 - Transcontinental railroad complete
• 1865 - Ku Klux Klan formed
• 1867 - McCoy = Abilene
• 1866 - Goodnight and Loving
• 1864 - Sand creek massacre
• 1865-68 - Red clouds war
• 1875-77 - The great sioux war
• 1877 - Dawes Act
• 1882 - Chinese exclusion act