TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 10 REVIEW

1830 Indian Removal Act
1830–1850 440,000 slaves from Upper South sold to owners in Lower South
1831 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia
Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery
1832 Worcester v. Georgia
1834 Britain abolishes slavery
1835–1842 Second Seminole War
1836 Treaty of New Echota
March 2, 1836 U.S. settlers declare eastern Texas an independent republic
March 6, 1836 General Santa Anna crushes U.S. rebels at the Alamo
March 1836 Congress passes gag rule
1837–1843 Panic of 1837 triggers extended depression
1838–1839 Cherokee driven west on Trail of Tears
1840 Whigs win the presidency and gain control of Congress
1841 Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery
1842 Seneca Indians win treaty to remain in New York
1845 U.S. annexes Texas
1846 U.S. settles dispute with Great Britain over Oregon
May 1846–February 1848 Mexican-American War
August 1846 David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso
March 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo