CHAPTER 14 TIMELINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By hdake
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wilmot proviso
david wilmot introduces proviso, banning slavery in the mexican cession. -
free-soil party
free soil party is founded -
1848 election
zachary taylor (whig) is elected president, defeating Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren -
California=free state
California seeks admission to the Union as a free state -
compromise of 1850
congress debates sectional issues and enacts conmpromise of 1850 -
uncle tom's cabin
harriet beecher stowe publishes uncle toms cabin -
1852 election
franklin peirce (democrat) is elected president -
kansas nebraska act
congress passes kansas-nebraska act repealing missouri comprmise -
republican party
republican party founded in several states -
anti-nebraska
anti nebraska coalitions score victories in congressional elections in the north -
know-nothing
know-nothing party achieves stunning success in state politics -
kansas territory
free-state and slave-state forces struggle for control of kansas territory -
preston brooks
preston brooks assualts charles summer on senate floor -
election of 1856
james buchanan wins presidency despite strong challenge in the north from john C. fremont -
dred scott case
supreme court decides dred scott case and legalizes slavery in all territories -
slavery issue
lincoln and douglas debate slavery issue in illinois -
kansas union
congress refuses to admit kansas to union under the proslavery lecompton constitution -
struggles in election
feirce struggles takes place over election of a republican speaker of the house -
election of 1860
Republicans nominate abraham lincoln for precidency -
democratic party splits
democratic party splits into northern and southern factions with seperate cndidates and platfomrs -
election of 1860
Lincoln wins presidency over douglas, breckridge, and bell
