Research the following and provide one fact and an important event 1853: Gadsden Purchase
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party formed
1856
Violence in Kansas
Senator Sumner attacked in the Senate
1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1859: John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
1860
Democratic Party splits apart
Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States
Lower South secedes
1861
Confederate States of America formed
Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
Upper South secedes
North is defeated at the first battle of Bull Run
1862
Battle of Antietam
Morill Tariff, Homestead Act
Emancipation Proclamation issued (effective January 1, 1863)
1864
Grant's wilderness campaign
Sherman takes Atlanta
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
1865
Sherman takes South and North Carolina
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery
Lincoln assassinated
Andrew Johnson becomes President
KKK formed
1867
First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction
Alaska purchased
1868
Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights
Johnson impeached
1870: Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds
1870s: Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority