Our Pre-Civil War Events

Missouri Compromise

Mar 6, 1820

The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.

Wilmont Proviso

Aug 8, 1846

http://www.ushistory.org/us/30a.asp

California Statehood

Sep 9, 1850

www.inn-california.com/articles/history/californiastatehood.html

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin was published

Jun 5, 1851

http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/

Onsted Manifesto

May 30, 1854

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/ostend/ostend.html

Raid on Lawerance, Kansas

May 21, 1856

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lawrencesack.htm

Charles Sumner Beating

May 22, 1856

http://www.senate.gov/vtour/sumner.htm

Linvcon-Douglas Debates

Aug 21, 1858

http://www.ushistory.org/us/32b.asp

South Carolina secedes

Feb 8, 1861

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_South_Carolina

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 2012