1820-1877

Timeline 1820-1877
 * 1) Corrupt Bargain, 1824 (Hunter)
 * 2) Election of Jackson, 1828 (Peyton)
 * 3) Indian Removal Act, 1830 (Johanna)
 * 4) Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833 (Matt)
 * 5) California Gold Rush, 1849 (Caroline)
 * 6) Compromise of 1850, 1850 (Matt)
 * 7) Election of Abraham Lincoln, 1860 (Hunter)
 * 8) Civil War, 1861-1865 (Caroline)
 * 9) Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (Peyton)
 * 10) Transcontinental Railroad Completion, 1869 (Johanna)

1. Civil War, 1861-1865 (Caroline)
 * Events by Importance **
 * Five Things that Impacted Development
 * Economic and social differences between the North and South
 * States vs. Federal rights
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tension between Non slave and Slave states
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Growth of Abolition Movement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abraham Lincoln becoming President
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three million men fought in the war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Over 618,000 casualties
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Disease was the main killer during the war, taking two men for every one who died in battle.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest battle in American history
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Appomattox Court House, General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This event was important because it restored the Union that had been previously been separated by the Union and the Confederacy. It also played a huge role in abolishing slavery and it paved the way for Civil Rights legislation. American military traditions were established, and Abraham Lincoln was recognized as an important figure in American history. The major long-term effect was Reconstruction, the time period dedicated to rebuilding the South.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Election of Lincoln, 1860 (Hunter)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lincoln-Douglas Debates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Freeport Doctrine
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compromise of 1850
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kansas-Nebraska Act
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mexican-American War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lincoln was nominated by the Republicans, Breckinridge by the Southern Democrats, Douglas by the Northern Democrats, and Bell by the Constitutional Union party.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lincoln won the election even though his name was not even on the ballot in the South.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Immediately after the election of Lincoln, the South seceded from the Union for fear of outlaw of slavery.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This event was important because it was an immediate cause of the Civil War and the secession of the Southern States. When Lincoln was nominated the South felt that their way of life, slavery, was going to be outlawed, even though they still had a majority in Congress and help from the Supreme Court. [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/NpzG-U2AQAxBvh1ZJQAAGxK8LaX9k3DXcH4HFxvvbfNIEMtuZvKOB88RYml58H1QhJYy5AoW9gU34ipu-rxPJkGmHKp-BN6mGLWV_-nZZ52018m7TP0]]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (Peyton)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Start of the Civil War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee’s victory at Chancellorsville
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Crumbling Western Front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee’s persuasion of Davis to continue pressing north
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee’s goals: to acquire supplies in Pennsylvania and demonstrate the power of the South to invade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three day battle (July 1-July 3) 1863
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">46000-51000 soldiers were casualties from both armies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Led to the famous “Gettysburg Address”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This defeat led to the end of Lee’s invasions of the North.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Battle of Gettysburg was very significant because it marked a major turning point in the Civil War. Before this point the Confederacy was attacking offensively and after the battle they could barely defend. This battle also had the most casualties of any battle in the Civil War.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Election of Jackson, 1828 (Peyton)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Henry Clay’s support of Adams in 1824
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Corrupt Bargain
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1826 Congressional Elections
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mudslinging Campaign
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Consolidation and formation of the Democratic Party
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson won 56% of the popular vote and 178 electoral votes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|John C. Calhoun] was his running mate
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Massive celebration/party at the White House
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This election was significant because it started the era of the Common Man which Andrew Jackson fundamentally represented. It also officially marked the full evolution of the Democratic-Republican party into the Democratic party.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Compromise of 1850 (Matt)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Missouri Compromise
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mexican-American War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Texas War for Independence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The institution of slavery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Slave codes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California admitted as free state
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Utah and New Mexico admitted with popular sovereignty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Texas gave up disputed land in exchange for federal payment of debts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Slave trade banned in DC
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stricter fugitive slave law
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Delayed Civil War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Compromise of 1850 was an influential part of US history because it delayed the Civil War, which was on the verge of occurring. Also, the Compromise made popular sovereignty become more widespread in the Western territories, expanding Stephen Douglas’s popularity.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833 (Matt)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alien & Sedition Acts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tariff of 1828
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compact Theory
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Force Bill
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Jackson initiated a tariff (of 1828) that South Carolinians, especially John C. Calhoun did not approve of.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Convention called to nullify the tariff, when they did, Jackson introduced the Force Bill, threatening to use military force to enforce payment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another example of government’s power over states and the conflict between states’ rights
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Nullification Crisis was very important in history because it was an example of the conflict between states’ rights and federal supremacy that raged throughout the early days of American History.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Corrupt Bargain, 1824 (Hunter)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Election of Henry Clay as Speaker of the House
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adam’s and Clay’s mutual rivalry towards Jackson
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Electoral College
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Battle of New Orleans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Election of 1824
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No one received a majority of votes during the 1824 election giving the vote to House of Representatives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Henry Clay was the Speaker of the House and threw his support behind Adams in exchange for the Secretary of State position.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson had won the popular vote and felt that by Clay “giving” his votes to Adams it was a “Corrupt Bargain”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This event was important because it set the stage for the age of Jackson. Jackson was so angry because of this bargain he spent the next four years pointing out the current president’s faults and planning his own presidency. So when election time came around again he won by a large majority. Also, this put an end to the pattern of president’s Secretary of States becoming the next president. [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/b37QJRcBiOBPHGwxbClcAh2H2c9MHaZ7eG8D3UmbufDJJKl1XfV4soGZerIUaSwBqpJhRVp2KtsLvjqz_3u2Z1_mHCMJ2aJ1lJIWifuKwv5xUg7od6k]]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Transcontinental Railroad Completion, 1869 (Johanna)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Five Things that Impacted the Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The U.S fears of having England gain control of California.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The perpetual war with the Indians in the plains.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold Rush/ Silver Strikes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Higher Manufacturing Rates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Civil War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proved to be a reliable way to transport goods.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Allowed companies to sell goods nation wide
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Increased national wealth
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> First time the continental land mass was connected
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Transcontinental Railroad is very important in U.S history for it proved to be very beneficial to the U.S economy. It not only connected the Continent but it also paved the way for new technological advances.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. California Gold Rush, 1849 (Caroline)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Sutter received a land grant of 50,000 acres in Sacramento Valley
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John built “Sutter’s Mill” and a worker, James Wilson Marshall, found a piece of metal that looked like gold.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">President James Polk confirmed the finding of gold to Congress.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">300,000 people came from around the US and other parts of the world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold-seekers were called 49ers, a reference to the year, 1849.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold was valued from $12.00 to $35.00 an ounce
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Types of mining included panning, sluicing, hydraulicking, hardrock or quartz mining, and dredging.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The population of California grew from less than 8,000 in 1846, to 92,597 in 1850.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Roads, churches, and homes were built to accompany the increasing population.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coloma became the first Gold Rush town.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This event was important because it really put California on the map as a desirable place to live. Immigrants saw California as a place of new beginnings and wealth. With all the growing population, California began a development of government and commerce.California became a state in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Indian Removal Act, 1830 (Johanna)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Five things that Impacted Development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indians living on desirable lands
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minni battles fought among the Indians and the white settlers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indians stealing and eating cattle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Railroads
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expansion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrated the power of the federal government
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Caused a mass amount of death to the Indian population
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Increased tensions with the Indians
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Appeased southern states
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Called for war among the Indians and the settlers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main reason as to why this event is important is because it demonstrated the power of the federal government. Another main reason as to why it was this event is important is the fact that it has marked our country with shame for many years.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Abraham Lincoln (Hunter)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People (by Importance) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United states and was the leader of the country through it’s hardest time, the Civil War. Lincoln always fought for the preservation of the union and was always noted as understanding of both sides of the war. After the war ended Lincoln was in the process of beginning reconstruction before he was murdered by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">President from 1861 through 1865 and was elected to two terms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was opposed to expansion of slavery in the US but was not for its abolition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was nominated by the Republican party for the 1860 election due to his stance on the expansion of slavery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was assassinated by a pro-south advocate, John Wilkes Booth, while visiting the theater with his wife

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Andrew Jackson (Johanna)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Jackson was president from 1829-1837 and in that time he made many changes and reforms to the U.S. Jackson destroyed the national bank and created the spoils system. He also issued the Indian removal act which will forever taint his name. He also created the Democratic party.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">created spoils system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">issued Indian removal act
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">killed national bank
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">created democratic party

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Henry Clay (Matt)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Henry Clay is one of the most influential political figures from 1820-1877 because of his role as “The Great Compromiser”. He developed compromises such as the Missouri Compromise, the tariff compromise in the Nullification Crisis, and the Compromise of 1850. These compromises all satisfied both sides of the argument and prevented potentially serious conflict, especially with the Compromise of 1850
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 prevented conflict over slavery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">avoided conflict between Jackson and Calhoun in Nullification Crisis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ran for president unsuccessfully 6 times

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Ulysses S. Grant (Peyton)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This semi-controversial leader was an important element in the victory of the Union over the Confederacy. Although it is considered that perhaps he did not have the military prowess of General Lee, he kept his men in the fight and “the axe to the grindstone.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grant was appointed General-in-Chief of the Union Army in March 1864.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Led the Union to many key victories such as Vicksburg and Chattanooga.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Later became the 18th president of the U.S. from 1869 to 1877

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Robert E. Lee (Peyton)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert E. Lee was a brilliant military commander who often found victory despite severe disadvantages. Although Robert E. Lee was actually opposed to the idea of succession and disunion, he still served as the leading General of Confederate forces.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shrewd military commander and tactician
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Surrendered at the Appomattox Court House April 9, 1865

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. John Brown (Caroline)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis-
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Devoted abolitionist who led men to Harper’s Ferry, VA and attacked a federal arsenal with a plan to arm slaves with the weapons. The raid was unsuccessful because Robert E. Lee led local farmers and Marines to protect the arsenal. John Brown was later charged and hanged for treason.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in Torrington, CT and died in Charles Town, VA
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Led 21men to Harper’s Ferry.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emerged as a major abolitionist in 1855 after moving to Kansas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Became the leader of antislavery guerillas in Kansas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brutally killed five settlers in a pro slavery town.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. John C. Calhoun (Matt)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John C. Calhoun was an important figure in US history due to his standing up for states’ rights throughout his political career. He fought for Southern values such as the institution of slavery, nullification, and weak government until the very end, getting into intense political battles with people such as Andrew Jackson.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Held offices of Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Senate, and House of Representatives
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Championed states’ rights, nullification, and secession, though he died 11 years before the Civil War

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. James K. Polk (Johanna)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">James k. Polk was president form 1845-1849 and in that time he made many beneficial changes to the U.S. He lead the U.S through a victory in the Mexican-American war and he gained territory in Oregon. He secured the passage of the Waker Tariff and he over saw the opening of the navel academy and the Washington monument. He also issued the first postage stamps.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lead U.S through victory in the Mexican war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gained Oregon territory
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">issued a tariff

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. John Wilkes Booth (Caroline)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis- Actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. He was a Confederate sympathizer and was outraged by the South’s defeat during the Civil War. He strongly opposed the abolishing of slavery.He and a group of co-conspirators planned on killing President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fled to Southern Maryland after the shooting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tracked down and shot by Boston Corbett 12 days later
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shouted “Sic semper tyrannis”, Latin for “Thus always to tyrants” before killing Lincoln.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shot Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44 caliber Derringer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since he was a popular and famous actor he had free access to all parts of Ford Theatre.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Joseph Smith (Hunter) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smith is the founder of The Latter Day Saints movement, or Mormonism, and is considered by many to be a prophet. In the early 1820s Smith said he had a series of visions in which an angel guided him to the gold tablets. On these tablets contained the guidelines for a new religion and are today the basis of Mormonism. Smith led his people through a controversial time and with the help of Brigham Young, helped to shape a religion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Founded the Latter Day Saints Movement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Considered a prophet of Mormonism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tried to lead his people to safety
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was killed in an angry protest of Mormonism in Illinois

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 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nullification Crisis **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Henry Clay **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Compromise of 1850 **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Battle of Gettysburg **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Ulysses S. Grant **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Robert E. Lee **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Election of 1860 **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Abe lincoln **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Corrupt Bargain **
 * [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Joseph Smith **