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Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline The Sioux and Apache Wars |
Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline |
Franklin Pierce Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events 1853 - His inauguration as 14th President of the United States 1853 - The Apache Wars (1849 -1924) continued 1853 - The Walker War (1853–1854) with the Ute Indians erupts in Utah over slavery among the Native Indians. Wakara (Walker) leads the Utes in a series of raids on Mormon settlements 1853 - American inventor Elisha Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators 1853 - The Gadsden Purchase, negotiated by James Gadsden, is signed in which the United States acquires more than 30,000 sq. miles of new territory in southwest Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million. 1854 - February 13, 1854: Matthew Perry arrives in Japan 1854 - The Sioux Wars (1854 - 1890) break out in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming. Their leaders included Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull 1854 - February 28 1854: The Black Warrior Affair (involving an American Merchant ship in Havana, Cuba), inflamed diplomatic relationships between the United States and Spain 1854 - March 31, 1854: Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates the Treaty of Kanagawa that opens US trade with Japan 1854 - The Kansas- Nebraska Act in which newly formed territories could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their new state when they applied for statehood 1854 - Popular Sovereignty and Slavery was used a pre-Civil War political doctrine 1854 - 1854 -1861: Bleeding Kansas - A series of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery factions that took place in Kansas Territory 1854 - October 1854: The Ostend Manifesto a secret document proposing the annexation of Cuba from Spain by proslavery diplomats that led to huge controversy between the northern and southern states 1855 - Additional conflicts with Native American erupted with the Yakima War (1855–1858), the Puget Sound War (1855–1856) and the Third Seminole War (1855–1858) 1855 - Henry Bessemer invented a process to create steel from iron which produced steel cheaply and efficiently 1857 - His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was James Buchanan Franklin Pierce Timeline of important Events Franklin Pierce Timeline - American Historama Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline |