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1846 Wilmont Proviso
Steps leading to the American Civil War Because of disagreements on slavery. -
1849 President Taylor
Was the twelfth president and was an American military leader -
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. Here is a summary of the five bills -
Fugitive slave act
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." In this compromise, the antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Columbia. -
1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on American history is pretty huge. After the last part of the story was published in National Era, the story was published and sold as one whole book. It eventually became the best-selling novel of the 19th century, selling over 300,000 copies just in 1852. -
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed on May 30, 1854. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas, each side hoping to determine the results of the first election held after the law went into effect. -
1856 Senator Charles Sumner Speech
The Senate was not in session when South Carolina Representative Preston S. Brooks entered the chamber to avenge the insults that Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner had levelled at Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew P. Butler. Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" speech of May 19-20 was sharply critical, on a personal level, of Butler and several other senators who had supported the "popular sovereignty" provisions of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
1856 John C. Fermont
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explore, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican party for the office of President of the United States. -
1856 James Buchanan
15th president of the united states. He is the only president from Pennsylvania -
1848 Free-Soil Party
We have assembled in convention as a union of free men, for the sake of freedom, forgetting all past political differences, in a common resolve to maintain the rights of free labor against the aggression of the slave power, and to secure free soil to a free people;
