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In January 9, 1850 Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850, which would resolve the issue of slavery.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, a controversial novel detailing the hardships of slavery. This created a large rift between the North and South.
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Harriet Tubman creates the Underground Railroad, a network of safehouses to assist runaway slaves in becoming free.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed, allowing popular sovereignty to decide out of the two territories, which would be free and which would allow slavery.
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With this election, the Republican Party and Know-Nothing Party fought and further divided the country with their different views on slavery.
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The US Supreme Court decided that Dred Scott could not become free, as he was not a citizen.
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Douglas believed popular sovereignty should be exercised in determining where slavery could be legal, and Lincoln countered by stating that slavery was immoral and based off of making a profit.
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Georgia passed a law that would prohibit slaves from becoming free, in the event that the owner died.
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John Brown and his group of slaves captured the arsenal, until soldiers under command of Gen. Robert E. Lee kill many of the militia and capture and hang John Brown for treason.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States of America, and as a candidate of the Republican Party, Southerners were afraid of his intentions to deal with slavery and as a result, thought of seceding from the Union.
