Chronological Table 1845 Texas admitted into the Union. Florida admitted. 839 1846 War with Mexico. Battle of Palo Alto. Wilmot's Proviso introduced and 1847 Battle of Buena Vista. Occupation of Mexico. Calhoun's resolutions 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes New Mexico, California, and Texas to the Discovery of gold in California. Taylor elected President. 1850 Clay's Plan of Compromise passed. "Squatter Sovereignty" proclaimed. Death of Calhoun. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. Death of President Taylor. Fillmore becomes President. 1852 Rise of the "Know-Nothing Party. Pierce elected President. Defeat of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, providing for creation of territories of Kansas and 1856 Buchanan elected President. 1857 The "Dred Scott" decision. 1859 John Brown's Raid. 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President. Republicans in power till 1884. The 1861 First blow in the Civil War struck at Fort Sumter. Virginia joins the confederate South. Lee made Commander-in-Chief. 1862 The Seven Days' Battles. Second defeat of the Federals at Bull Run. Battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor. Fall of New Orleans. Lincoln issues Proclamation of Emancipation. Lee invades Maryland. Battle of Fredericksburg. Fight between 1863 Final decree of emancipation. Battle of Chancellorsville. Death of Stonewall Lee invades Pennsylvania. Battle of Gettysburg. Capture of Vicksburg. Sur- Conscription law passed by Congress. 1864 Battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. Sherman's Raid. Capture of Early threatens Washington, but retires. Naval battle in Mobile Bay. Lincoln re-elected President. Capture of Wilmington. 1865 Fall of Richmond. Lee surrenders at Appomattox. End of the War. Thirteenth Amendment adopted. 1866 Proclamation of peace and order in the United States. 1867 Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress. Alaska purchased from Russia by the United States. 1868 Fourteenth Amendment adopted. Impeachment of Johnson. Grant elected 1869 First railway between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans completed. 1870 Fifteenth Amendment adopted. 1871 1872 Reform of the Civil Service. Treaty of Washington (Alabama claims). 1876 Hayes elected President. Grant re-elected President. 1880 Garfield elected President. Abrogation of Clayton-Bulwer Treaty demanded. 1884 Cleveland elected President. Domination of Republican party ends. Canal Treaty with Nicaragua. 1886 Fisheries dispute with Great Britain. 1888 Bayard-Chamberlain (Fisheries) Treaty. 840 Chronological Table 1888 Sackville incident. Harrison elected President. 1889 Condominium of United States, Great Britain, and Germany established in 1890 McKinley Tariff Bill passed. 1892 Cleveland re-elected President. Republic proclaimed in Hawaii, and recognised by United States. Treaty for Behring Sea arbitration. 1894 Chicago riots. 1895 Reform of Civil Service. Venezuelan dispute. Beginning of Cuban insur- rection. 1896 McKinley elected President. Venezuelan arbitration agreed on. 1897 General Arbitration Treaty rejected by Senate. Dingley Tariff Act. 1898 Annexation of Hawaii. U. S. S. Maine blown up at Havana. Outbreak of war with Spain. Destruction of Spanish fleets at Manila and Santiago. Capitulation of Santiago. Peace of Paris cedes Philippines and Porto Rico to the 1899 Act for preservation of gold standard. Conference at the Hague. Venezuelan 1900 McKinley re-elected President. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty fails in Senate. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty supersedes Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. United States Steel Corporation 1902 Venezuelan blockade. American occupation of Cuba ceases. INDEX Abenaki Indians, the, influence of the French Abercrombie, General, 126, 134 sq. Abolition, of slavery, 589-602; compensated, Abolitionists, the, 387 sq. Abraham, the Heights of, 140 Acadia, settlement and early history of, 110- 12; French intrigues in, 121 Adams, John, President of United States, 146, Adams, John Quincy, President of United Adams, Samuel, of Boston, 146, 161, 182, 197; Admiralty, Courts of, 184 sqq. Agriculture, development of, 707 sq., 712 sq. Alabama, formation of, 359; secession of, 446 Albany (Fort Orange), English conquest of, Albemarle, Earl of, 34 Albemarle, the, torpedoing of, 564 Alexander, Sir William, 75 Algonquins, French relations with the, 75, 76 Allen, governor of New Hampshire, 31 Amendments to the Constitution: the Thir- America, effect upon England of discovery of, America, colonisation of: the English, chaps. Americans, character of the, 724 sq. Amherst, General Lord, 132, 137; his march to Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 97 Ampudia, General, 394 Anderson, Major Robert, 446, 450, 462 sq., 545 Andros, Colonel Sir Edmund, colonial gov- Annapolis Convention, the (1786), 244, 312, Anne, Cape, 15 Antietam, battle of, 482 Antilles, the French, 319 Anti-Masons, the, 379 Anti-Slavery Society, the American, 387, Appeal, David Walker's, 386 sq. Aquednok (Rhode Island), 19, 20, 23, 24 Arbitration Treaty (1897), the, 672 Armed Neutrality, the, 233 Armies, the Northern and Southern, in the Army, the United States (1812), 336 Arnold, Benedict, his invasion of Canada, Articles of Confederation, the, 235 sq., 249, Ashburton, Lord, 391 "Assemblies," interference with, 181 Assistance, writs of, 177-81 Atlanta, capture of, 520-2 Atlanta, capture of the, 563 Atlantic Monthly, the, 746 Bacon, Nathaniel, his revolt and death, 9 Baldwin (American politician), 246 Baltimore, George Calvert, first Lord, founder Bank of the United States, 316, 351 sq., 382 Banking, rise of, 352; change in the system Banking law, amendment of the, 674 Banks, deposits in, 715; "pet," and the sur- Banks, General, 506 Baptists, the, in Rhode Island, 57 Barbados, Quaker women exiled to, 25; Caro- Barrington, William Wildman, Viscount, 142 Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty (1888), the, 659 Beauport, Montcalm's headquarters at, 138 Beaver Dam, capture of American detach- Beaver-fur, the medium of exchange in New Bedford (American statesman), 246, 261 Belcher, Jonathan, governor of Massachu- Bellemont, Lord, governor of Massachusetts, Benjamin, Judah P., 604 Bentonville, battle of, 530 Birney, James Gillespie, 387, 388 Blanco, General, 675 Bland-Allison Act (1878), the, 643 Blockade, the Federal, and its effects, 550 Blockades, British, 327, 329, 330 Booth, John Wilkes (the assassin), 545, 547 Boston (Mass.), a day of humiliation held at, Boston Athenaeum, the, 744 Boston Bay, Puritan settlements along, 16, Boston Gazette, the: Samuel Adams's letters Boston Massacre, the, 153 sq. "Boston orators," the, 743 sq. Bougainville, L. A. de, 126, 137, 139, 140, 143 Bouquet (Swiss officer), 97, 136 Bradford, William, governor of New Ply- Bradstreet (colonial officer), destroys Fort Bragg, General Braxton, 506 sqq. Brainford, in New Haven, abandoned by in- Brandywine, battle of, 213 Brearly (American politician), 246, 252 Breda, treaty of (1667), 89 Bristow, Secretary, 644 British squadrons in North American waters, strength of (1811-15), 338 Brock, Major-General, 337 Broke, Captain, 342 Brook, Lord, 18, 21 Brooks, Preston, his assault on Charles Sum- ner, 430 Brown, Charles Brockden, 741 Brown, John, raid of, 439 Brown, Joseph E., governor of Georgia, 605 Browne, John and Samuel: their expulsion from Massachusetts, 16 Bryan, William J., 673 Bryant, William Cullen, 742 Buccaneers, the, in the West Indies, 85 Buchanan, James, President of United States, Buckner, General, 462 sq. Buell, Brigadier-General, 463, 493, 507 Buena Vista, battle of, 396 66 Index Building of the West, the," and its results, Bull Run, first battle of, 465 sqq.; second Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton (Lord Dalling and Bunker Hill, battle of, 168 Burgoyne, General, expedition of, 214-16 Burnside, General Ambrose E., 483 sq., 573 Butler (American politician), 246, 286 Cabinet, the Confederate, flight of, 541 California, conquest of, 395; discovery of gold Calvert, Cecilius: see Baltimore Calvert, George: see Baltimore Calvert, Leonard, 31 Calvinism, Channing on, 738 Calvin's case, 189 Camara, Admiral, 679 Camden, Americans routed at, 225 Camden, Earl of, 147 843 Carteret, Philip, 41, 46; his imprisonment, 47 Carteret, Sir George (the younger), 47 Carver, William, governor of New Plymouth, Cary, Thomas, 37 Cass, Lewis, 398, 419, 447, 656 Castle Island, 17 Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 233 Cattle, export of, 56 "Caucus, the," 373; resolutions of, 447 Cayuga Indians, the, 75 Cedar Creek, battle of, 533 Cemetery Ridge, the Confederate attack on, Census: periodical, discussion on, 268; of Cervera, Admiral, 679, 680 Champlain, S. de, “Lieutenant-General," 71 Champlain, Lake, 124, 125, 137 Character, national, in England and America, Charles II, King of England, 9, 38 Charters, the colonial, 196-202. Chase, Salmon P., 428, 450, 568 sqq., 633 sq. Chattanooga, blockade and battle of, 510-13 Chesapeake and Leopard, affair of the, 329 sq. Chickahominy, battles on the, 476 Chippewa, British defeat at, 343 Choiseul, Duc de, 97 Church, French-Canadian, 84 Church of England, in America, 57, 58 City Point, meeting of Lincoln and his gene- Civil Rights Act, Supplementary (1875), 642 Civil Service, the Federal, reform of, 635, Civil War, the American, chaps. XIV, XV, XVI, |