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Compromise of 1850
This event added California as a free state, determined the border of Texas, and it recognized territories of New Mexico and Utah. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written by an abolitionist about slave catchers dragging off African Americans. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri compromise and created two new territories. They had the choice to choose if they wanted to be a slave or free state. -
Creation of the Republican Party
The Republican party was founded in 1854 and it was the party that Abraham Lincoln was part of when he got elected in 1860 -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a territorial civil war between proslavery and antislavery settlers. Representatives from the north and south tried to get people to move to Kansas in order to determine the rules of slavery going forward in the U.S. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner made a speech that ruined the reputation of South Carolina senator Andrew Butler. After the speech one of Butler's cousins went to Sumner's office and beat him with a cane. -
Dred Scott Decision
The supreme court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott who lived in a free state was not entitled to his freedom. -
A House Divided Speech
This was his speech about the state of the nation in 1857. Leading up to this event was the Dred Scott Decision and bleeding Kansas. In this document he predicts that either everyone will accept slavery as part of the country or they will all accept no slavery as part of the country. Lincoln altered his views from his emancipation proclamation speech by making it clear that the nation will be have no slavery and there will be no permanent half and half. -
Presidential election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860. He was party of the newly founded Republican Party.