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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
Uncle Toms Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist. This novel was the best-selling novel of the 19th century. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.Pierce took part in the Mexican–American War. -
Republican Party Formed
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the new party. One meeting was in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 called for the "popular sovereignty" which is, the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers. -
Know-nothing Party
The Know Nothing movement was an movement that operated on a national basis during the mid-1850s. It promised to purify American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, reflecting nativism and anti-Catholic sentiment. -
Charles Sumner Beaten w/Cane
Sumner was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. -
John Brown Kills Five Proslavery Settlers
In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers,some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles, killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek.This was one of the many bloody episodes in Kansas, which came to be known as Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was brought about by the Missouri Compromise and Kansas–Nebraska Act. -
James Buchanan Elected President
James was the 15th president of the Unnited States. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives and later the Senate and served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson. He was also Secretary of State under President James K. Polk. After he turned down an offer for an appointment to the Supreme Court, President Franklin Pierce appointed him minister to the Court of St. James's. -
John Brown And Party Reaches Harpers Ferry
This was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. John Brown had asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid. -
John Browns Execution
News of Browns raid spread quickly, and militia companies from Maryland and Virginia arrived the next day, killing or capturing several raiders. On October 18, U.S. Marines commanded by Colonel Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant J.E.B. Stuart, recaptured the arsenal, taking John Brown and several other raiders alive. On November 2, Brown was sentenced to death by hanging.
