A House Divided: Timeline

By Mila Marie

  • Compromise of 1850

  • California Statehood

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published

  • The Creation of the Republican Party

  • Kansas/Nebraska Act

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

  • Lincoln's A House Divided Speech

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Presidential Election of 1860