American Events from 1850 to 1860

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • California Statehood

  • The Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • The Creation of the Republican Party

  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

  • The Dred Scott Decision

  • Abraham Lincoln's "A House Divided" Speech

  • The Presidential Election of 1860