Chapter 15 By benneja08 Dec 24, 1819 Missouri Crisis Dec 24, 1832 Nullification Process Dec 24, 1840 Polk wants to extend the line more to the west Dec 24, 1847 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Dec 24, 1848 Free-Soil Party created Dec 24, 1850 Compromise of 1850 estblished Dec 24, 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Created Dec 24, 1850 James Hamlet arrested Dec 24, 1852 Franklin Pierce gets elected Dec 24, 1854 Anthony Burns Fugitive slave arrested Dec 24, 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act made Dec 24, 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre Dec 24, 1856 Preston Brooks beats Charles Summer with a cane Dec 24, 1862 Civil War began Dec 24, 1862 Rail Road construction began