Due to the Gold Rush, there was an influx in population in the territory of California the population went from 1,000 people to 50,000 people in only a year.
California Applies for Statehood as a freestate
The Compromise of 1850 is passed
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published
Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed
"Bleeding Kansas" begins
Pottowatamie Massacre takes Place
James Buchanan is Elected as President
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Lincoln vs. Douglas Debates Begin
Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Abraham Lincoln Elected as President
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
South Carolina Troops fire on an the "Star of the West" (an unarmed merchant ship)
