Social Studies Timeline

By Johnyday
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    To keep the senate equal Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    Making California a free state divided Mexico into New Mexico and Utah, ending the Washington slave trade.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    This act required all citizens to help catch slaves. Judges received money for sending slaves to the South.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Popular in the North the South thought it was an untrue image of slavery.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to set up a government in the northwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase splitting it up into 2 parts.
  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott filed a lawsuit. He was a slave after living in a free state because his master died.
  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    Anti-slavery campaign from East to Kansas it was a plan to give guns to slaves.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    South wanted to keep slavery so they took Abraham Lincoln off of the balet. Lincoln was still elected and the South was mad.
  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina Secedes

    After President Lincoln was elected states in the South seceded to create their government. South Carolina was the first then Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas seceded.