1810s to 1860s Archives | Center for the Study of Federalism https://federalism.org/library/ctl-stories/1810s-to-1860s/ A Nonpartisan Research Institution Dedicated to Studying and Researching the Theory and Practice of Federalism Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:02:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://federalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CSF-Icon-Color@0.5x-100x100.png 1810s to 1860s Archives | Center for the Study of Federalism https://federalism.org/library/ctl-stories/1810s-to-1860s/ 32 32 170862320 1869 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1869/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:03:47 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=854 Texas v. White, a 5-3 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving state bonds, rejected the South’s compact theory of the U.S. Constitution, holding instead that states cannot secede unilaterally from the...

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]]> 1222 1868 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1868/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:03:26 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=853 Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on July 9, grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” while retaining state citizenship, and expands federal authority...

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]]> 1221 1866 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1866/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:03:05 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=852 First Civil Rights Act granted citizenship and equal rights to all men in the United States regardless of race or previous condition of servitude because, after the Civil War, some...

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]]> 1220 1865 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1865/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:02:45 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=851 Appomattox, Virginia, is the site of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army,...

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]]> 1219 1863 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1863/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:02:20 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=850 Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1 declaring that “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a...

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]]> 1218 1862 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1862/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:01:42 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=846 Department of Agriculture was created by President Abraham Lincoln, who called it the “people’s department,” to collect agriculture statistics, conduct research, distribute new varieties of seeds and plants, apply chemistry...

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]]> 1217 1861-1865 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1861-1865/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:59:23 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=845 The Civil War, which took the lives of some 720,000 Americans, determined the unity of the United States and moved the federal union in a more nationalist direction that, among...

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]]> 1216 1860 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1860/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:58:46 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=844 South Carolina was the first state to declare secession from the United States on December 20—2.5 months before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration.

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]]> 1215 1857 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1857/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:43:22 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=842 Dred Scott v. Sandford, a 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, declared that black residents were not citizens of the United States and that slaves had no right to sue for...

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]]> 1214 1854 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1854/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:43:07 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=841 Kansas-Nebraska Act established the Kansas and Nebraska territories and permitted settlers to decide whether to allow or prohibit slavery in either territory. The act contradicted the Missouri Compromise of 1820...

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]]> 1213 1850 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1850/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:42:50 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=839 Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills grouped together to deal with the balance between free and slave states in the Congress in the lands acquired from the...

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]]> 1212 1842 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1842/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:42:33 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=838 Prigg v. Pennsylvania, an 8-1 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, overturned a slave-catcher’s conviction under Pennsylvania law for kidnapping a slave. The Court ruled that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793...

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]]> 1211 1837 https://federalism.org/library/timeline/1837/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:40:28 +0000 https://federalism.orgn/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=835 Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company, a 5-2 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, held that Massachusetts did not violate the Constitution’s contracts clause when it authorized the Warren Bridge...

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