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Compromise of 1850
-California enters Union as free state
-Fugitive Slave Act passes
-The selling of slaves, but not slavery itself, was banned in Washington, D.C.
-Texas gave up lands in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming to the federal government in exchange for money
-Utah and New Mexico territoires were given the right to popular sovereignty. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin as a response to the pro-slavery movement -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-repealed the Missouri Compromise
-formed Kansas and Nebraska terrtores
-applied the concept of popular soverignty. This allowed the states to vote on whether or not slavery was legal. -
Pottawatomie Masscre
As revenge for burning Lawrence to the ground, an abolitionist gang led by John Brown killed five border ruffians at the Pottawatomie Massacre -
Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court rules in Scott v. Sandford that blacks are not U.S. citizens, and slaveholders have the right to take existing slaves into free areas of the county. -
Minnesota enters Union
Minnesota enters the Union as a free state, 32rd -
Oregon enters Union
Oregon enters the Union as a free state, 33rd -
Attack On Harper's Ferry
John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
John Brown Hung
John Brown was hung as a results from not only the attack at Harper Ferry, but the Pottawatome Massacre. He and two other black members of his band were hung. -
Election of 1960
Abraham Lincoln beats John C, Breckinridge and becomes 16th President -
South Carolina Seceds from Union
When it became clear that Abraham Lincoln would be the next president, South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the Union -
The War Begins
South Carolina's Fort Sumter is fired upon by the Confederates