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Slavery banned in Mexican cession
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Free soil party is founded
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Taylor getrs elected as president
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Cali wants to become a free state
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politicians appealed to seconalism
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Congress enables Comprimise of 1850
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Franklin Pierce elected president
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Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Congress passes the Kanas-Nebraska Act
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Missouri Compromise was repealed
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Know nothing parties achieve
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Brooks assults sumner
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Buchanan becomes president
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Free/slave both want kanas
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Dred Scott case decided
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Lincoln and douglas debates slavery issues in Illinois
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John Brown raids harpers ferry
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Lincoln gets nominated for presidency
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Lincoln Defeats breckenridge and becomes president
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Democratic party splits