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Free Soil Movement 1848
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections -
Wilmot proviso 1848
An unsuccessful compromise in the US Congress to get rid of slavery in territory acquired from Mexico and this upset the north -
Compromise 1850
Compromise admitted California as a free state and did not regulate slavery it increased tensions between both side ( north and the south ) because the south felt as if California needed to be a slave state -
Uncle toms cabin published 1852
Anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher stowe it had a profound affection attitudes toward African-Americans and slavery in the US in which made the south angry because they felt that all whites should want to own slaves -
Kansas - Nebraska Act 1854
They allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on popular sovereignty also they both were drafted by Democrats and this led to bleeding kansas -
Republican Party Reform 1854
Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by abolitionists, modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. ... The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. -
Bleeding Kansas incidents 1856
The border was a series of violence civil confrontations in the US which emerged from a political and ideology sugar debate over over slavery in proposed to the state of Kansas -
Caning Of Charles Sumner 1856
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, ... -
Dred Scott vs Sanford decision 1857
The supreme court ruled that Americans of African descendants were free of slavery the court also ruled to ban slaves from the US territory -
Lincoln Douglas debates 1858
Douglas wasn’t in cubit senators who had established himself as a supporter of popular sovereignty -
Election of Lincoln 1860
The republican party fielded its first candidate in 1856 was a post to the expansion of slavery
