1850s Timeline

By lebowch

  • Wilmot Provioso

    Proposition that any territotry acquired from Mexico would be an anti-slavery one
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  • Free Soil Party Formed

  • Zachary Taylor Elected President

    Beat Lewis Crass, Democrat from Michigan, and Martin Van Buren, Free Soil from New York.

  • Zachary Taylor Dies

  • Fugitive Slave Act Passed

  • Compromise of 1850 Passed

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

  • Franklin Pierce Elected President

    Beat Winfield Scott, Whig from New Jersey, and John P. Hale, Free Soil from New Hampshire

  • Republican Party Formed

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    Civil War in Kansas

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act Passed

  • Ostend Manifesto Written

    Document saying that if Spain does not allow the US to buy Cuba, then the US should go to war with Spain.

  • Preston Brooks Clubs Charles Summer

  • James Buchanan Elected President

    Beat John Fremont, Republican from California, and Millard Fillmore, American Party from New York

  • Dred Scott Case Decided

    Dred Scott, a slave, was brought to free states in order to gain freedom. Was eventually found and brought back to owners.
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    Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    Series of seven debates on slavery
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    John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown seized control of an American armory and tried to start an armed slave revolt.

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Beat John Breckinridge, Southern Democratic, John Bell, Constitutional Union, and Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat.
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    Secession of 6 States from Union

    States seceded: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas

  • South Carolina Secedes

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    4 States Secede from Union

    Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

  • South Carolina Fires on Fort Sumter

  • Lincoln Calls for Troops