A nation divided timeline

  • Missouri Compromise

    the south could not go over a certain line
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    rebellion lead by nat turner
  • gag Rule

    the gag rule was a series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery
  • Wilmot Proviso

    a proposal to not let the south move for more land
  • Harreit Tubman escapes slavery

    a woman who helps the underground railroad
  • Compromise of 1850

    admitted California to the United States as a free state
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
    the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property
  • John Brown raids Harpers Ferry

    helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    the addition of Kansas and Nebraska
  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

    people fighting for slavery and non-slavery
  • Dred Scott Decision

    a slave was always property and could not change
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    propelled Lincoln's political career into the national spotlight.
  • Abraham Lincoln elected

    Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president