timeline project

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    It was basically an agreement between the south and the north, to let Missouri be the 24th state.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    It was a failed proposal from David Wilmot to ban slavery from the territories that got from mexico
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor

    the 12th president of the united states, and a national hero from the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    It was actually a set of five bills passed by congress.
  • Fugitive slave act

    Fugitive slave act

    The fugitive slave act was a law passed that made it legal to basically kidnap an escaped slave and bring them back.
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore

    America's 13th president, known for the Comprimise of 1850.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    A two-volume novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that goes against slavery, and was the second best selling book in the 19th century, right after the bible.
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce

    As the fourteenth president of the U.S. he tried to ease the divisions but it didn't do much.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    The violent out bursts between anti-slavery and pro-slavery people in result of the new territory of Kansas.
  • Creation of the republic party

    Creation of the republic party

    This party was created to combat the Kansas-Nebraska act, also known as bleeding Kansas.
  • The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

    The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

    Senator Charles Sumner basically just got beaten to unconsciousness, and near-death, by Preston Brooks
  • The Dred Scott case

    The Dred Scott case

    Also regarded as Dred Scott v. Sandford, this was when the court decided that Americans of African descent shouldn't be granted citizenship, so yea.
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    The fifteenth president, and one the worst in some people's opinions, probably because he never addressed the issue of slavery
  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    The Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    These were actually seven debates between Stephen Douglas, from the democratic party, and Abraham Lincoln from the republic party.
  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry

    This was a slave revolt led by John Brown, that did not succeed.
  • Lincoln’s Election of 1860

    Lincoln’s Election of 1860

    This event is litterally just Abraham Lincol's election.
  • Southern Secession

    Southern Secession

    Basically the south withdrawing from the U.S.