History

By jkrs

  • Cotton Gin invented

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Nat Turner's rebellion

  • Mexican American War ends

  • California Gold rush begins

  • Compromise of 1850

  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published

  • Gadsen Purchase

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Ostend Manifesto

  • Dred Scott decision

  • "Impending Crisis in the South" written

  • Harper's Ferry rebellion

  • South Carolina secedes

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln