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Uncle Tom's Cabin published
Harriet Beecher Stowe published "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1850. It is said to have made people in the North to become much more opposed to slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas Territory. Ended 1861 -
Republican Party formed
Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. The Republican party was formed on March 20, 1854. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
A massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25. There were a total of 5 deaths. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Dred Scott returned to Missouri and became a free slave. -
Lecomptom Constitution
Formed in 1857, residents of Kansas rejected the Lecomptom Constitution -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debated between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass. Ended October 15, 1858 -
Freeport Doctrine
articulated by Stephen A. Douglass at the second of the Lincoln-Douglass debates on August 27, 1858. -
John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal army. It was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt. -
Lincoln elected president as Democrats split
This was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
