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History Timeline
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Missouri Compromise
an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states -
Compromise of 1850
was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress -
Formation of Free-Soil Party
was a short-lived political party in the United States -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
was the most popular 19th century novel and, after the Bible, was the second-best-selling book of that century. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
Formation of Republican Party
It emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery into the territories, and to promote more vigorous modernization of the economy. -
Bleeding Kansas
was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Election of 1860
was opposed to the expansion of slavery. Abraham Lincoln, the party's nominee in 1860, was seen as a moderate on slavery, but Southerners feared that his election would lead to its demise, and vowed to leave the Union if he was elected. -
Dred-Scott Case
Controversial ruling by the supreme court tension or slavery in the us -
Jhon Brown's Raid
was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his formative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts