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compromise of 1850
5 bills passed by the us congress that diffused 4 year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding territories obtained by the Mexican american war. -
Publication of Moby Dick
the book moby dick was published on October. -
Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
changed how americans viewed slavery. -
Gadsden Purchase
region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased -
Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas -
Presidential election of 1856
election of 1856 was an unusually heated election campaign that led to the election of James Buchanan, the ambassador to the United Kingdom -
Dred Scott Supreme Court case
the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law -
Oregon becomes a state
oregon becomes a state -
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
John Brown kills 5 homesteaders in Kansas
During the Kansas campaign, He and his supporters killed five pro-slavery supporters in the Pottawatomi -
Presidential Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.