Unit 3 Timeline

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  • Underground railroad begins helping escaped slaves flee

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • The trreay of Guadalupe-Hidalgo is signed

  • The republican Party is founded

  • H.D. Thoreau wite Civil Disobedience

  • The Compromise of 1850 is Made

  • California Becomes a state

  • The fugitive slave act is passed

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • The Kansas- Nebraska Act

  • Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner

  • "Border Ruffians" attack Lawrence Kansas

  • James Buchanan is Elected President

  • The Dred Scott decision is announced

  • South Carolina Secededss from the union

  • Lincoln and Douglaas debate for the Illinois senate seat

  • Border Ruffians in Kansas

  • John Brown attacks the arsenal at Harpers Ferry

  • Congress rejects lecompton constitution

  • The confederacy is established

  • Abraham Lincoln Is elected

  • Fort Sumter is attacked by confederate forces