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Tennessee |
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Compromise of 1850 |
1850 |
Nashville Convention |
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Population: 1,002,717 |
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1851 |
William Bowen Campbell, Governor, Whig, 1851-1853 |
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1853 |
Andrew Johnson, Governor, Democrat, 1853-57 |
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1854 |
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad completed |
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1856 |
Christmas Day - slaves plan march on Clarksville |
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1857 |
Isham G. Harris, Governor, Democrat, 1857-1862 |
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Church of the Advent established |
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David Lipscomb preaches first sermon in Nashville |
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1859 |
October - Louisville and Nashville Railroad completed |
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First Lutheran Church established |
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Election of Abraham Lincoln as President |
1860 |
Population: 1,109,801 |
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South Carolina secedes from the Union |
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Fort Sumter - April 13 |
1861 |
February 9 - Tennessee votes not to hold convention to address secession |
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June 8 - Tennessee votes to secede |
| Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) July 21, 1861 | ||
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1862 |
January 19 - Battle of Fishing Creek |
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February 6 - Battle of Fort Henry |
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February 12-16 - Battle of Fort Donelson |
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February 23 - Confederate evacuation of Nashville |
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March 3 - Andrew Johnson is appointed Military Governor of Tennessee |
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April 6-7 - Battle of Shiloh |
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Seven Days' Battle - June 25 to July 1 |
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June 6 - Fall of Memphis |
| Battle of Second Manassas August 28-August 30 | ||
| Battle of Antietam September 16-September 18 | ||
| President Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 | ||
| Battle of Perryville October 7 - October 8 | ||
| Battle of Fredericksburg, December 11 | ||
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Dec. 31 - Jan. 2, 1863 - Battle of Stones River |
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1863 |
September 19-20 - Battle of Chickamauga |
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November 23-24 - Battle of Lookout Mountin |
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November 27 - Sam Davis is Hanged |
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November 29 - Battle of Fort Sanders |
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Abraham Lincoln wins re-election with Andrew Johnson as Vice-President |
1864 |
April 13 - Battle of Fort Pillow |
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November 4 - Battle of Johnsonville |
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November 30 - Battle of Franklin |
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December 15-16 - Battle of Nashville |
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1865 |
William G. Brownlow is elected Governor |
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General Lee Surrenders to General Grant at Appamattox - April 9 |
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The Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph Johnston surrenders in North Carolina |
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President Lincoln is assassinated in Washington; Andrew Johnson becomes President of the U. S. |
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Forrest’s Cavalry Corp surrenders - May 9 |
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1866 |
July 4 - Gov. Brownlow calls for Special session to ratify 14th amendment; Senate ratifies amendment |
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July 16 - Sergeant-at-Arms holds conservatives in state capitol |
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July 18 - House ratifies 14th amendment |
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July 23 - Tennessee is readmitted to the Union |
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Founding of Fisk University |
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1867 |
Feb. 20 - State legislature passes act to allow Governor to raise an armed force known as the Tennessee State Guard; Governor given the authority to set aside voter registrations in any county |
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October - Radicals in Congress consider impeaching Andrew Johnson |
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Emerson Etheridge runs agains Brownlow for Governor; Brownlow wins: 74,034 to 22,550 |
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Founding of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski |
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April - Klan has secret meeting at Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville; Nathan Bedford Forrest becomes the Grand Wizard |
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October - Tennessee legislature passes resolution requesting the state’s delegation in Washington vote for impeachment |
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Legislature passes KKK Act |
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Ulysses S. Grant is elected President |
1868 |
Vine Street Temple |
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1869 |
Brownlow resigns to become U. S. Senator DeWitt Senter, Whig/Republican Becomes Governor, 1869-1871 |
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DeWitt Senter, William Stokes run for Governor; Senter wins |
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end of radical power in state |
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1870 |
January 10 - Constitutional Convention held in Nashville |
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March 26 - referendum on new Constitution; passes 98,128 to 33,972; Constitution of 1870 |
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Election of 1870 - |
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Population: 1,258,520 |
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1871 |
John C. Brown, Whig/Democrat, Governor, 1871-75 |
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Panic of 1873 |
1873 |
Panic of 1873 |
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1873 |
Legislature passes law to create state educational system - School Act of 1873 |
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Vanderbilt University is chartered |
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1874 |
Efforts begin to close saloons in Greeneville |
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1875 |
James D. Porter, Democrat, Governor 1875-79 |
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State Board of Education is established |
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University of Tennessee changes name from East Tennessee University |
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1876 |
WCTU - established in Memphis |
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President Rutherford B. Hayes visits Nashville |
1877 |
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