1850s

By DonaldJBarnes99

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states. It settled which territories would be free and pro slave.

  • Publication of Moby Dick

    Publication of Moby Dick
    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance.

  • Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was said to have place down the base of the civil war

  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States. America got the land by signing a treaty when the then mexico ambassador