1820- 1861

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Texas became a state

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Republican party formed

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott case

  • John Brown attack on Harpers Ferry

  • Lincoln elected as President

  • Compromise of 1850

  • South Carolina secedes from Federal Union

  • Confederate States of America form

  • Fort Sumter attend