Period 5 By Cy14884 1845 Annexation of Texas 1846 Oregon Treaty (49th Parallel) Period: 1846 to 1840 Mexican-American War 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 Seneca Falls Convention 1849 California Gold Rush 1850 Compromise of 1850 1852 Uncle Toms Cabin 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act --> Bleeding Kansas 1857 Dred Scott Decision 1859 John Brown at Harpers Ferry 1860 Abe Lincolns election (secession begins) 1861 Confederate States formed + Fort Sumter 1861 1st Battle of Bull Run Period: 1861 to 1865 Civil War 1862 Homestead Act 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act 1862 Battle of Antietam 1863 Gettysburg+Vicksburg 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1864 Shermans March to the Sea and Lincolns Relection 1865 Lincolns Assasination 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Court House 1865 13th (Free) 1865 Freedman's Bureau 1865 Black codes Period: 1865 to 1877 "Reconstruction" 1867 Reconstruction Acts 1868 14th (Citizens) 1870 15th (vote) 1870 Enforcement Acts(KKK) 1873 Panic of 1873 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875 1877 Compromise of 1877