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In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
Timeline and periods. ... The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, ... Francis Amasa Walker, superintendent of the 1870 census, used census and surgeon ...
1870 – First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard) 1870 – Black Codes; 1870 - Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are readmitted to the union; 1871 – Great Chicago Fire; 1871 – Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding Canada; 1871 - The New York Times published evidence of Tweed's rampant greed. 1871 - Civil ...
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
The Civil War - website with more than 7,000 pages of Civil War content, including the complete run of Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civil War. The American Civil War - Detailed listing of events, documents, battles, commanders and important people of the US Civil War; Civil War: Death and Destruction - slideshow by Life magazine
Somali Civil War, since 1988 The United Nations intervenes in the Somali Civil War, July 27, 1992 – March 3, 1995 The United States leads the Unified Task Force, December 9, 1992 – May 4, 1993; The United States deploys independent Task Force Ranger, August 8, 1993 – March 31, 1994 Battle of Mogadishu, October 3–4, 1993
American Samoa was acquired by the United States in 1900 after the end of the Second Samoan Civil War. [5] The United States purchased the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. [ 6 ] Puerto Rico and Guam remain territories, and the Philippines became independent in 1946, after being a major theater of World War II .
1850 – Clayton–Bulwer Treaty; 1850 – President Taylor threatens to veto Compromise of 1850 even if it means Civil War. June 3-11 –The secessionist Nashville Convention held in Nashville, Tennessee.