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Chapter 14 The Gathering Storm 1848-1860

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  • 1848

    1848
    Free-Soil party is organized

  • 1849

    1849
    California gold rush begins

  • 1854

    1854
    Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • 1856

    1856
    Pro-slavery mob jacks Lawrence;Kansas; John Potyawatomie Massacre in retaliation
    Charles Summer of Massachusetts is caned and seriously injured by pro-slavery congressman in U.S. Senate

  • 1857

    1857
    U.S. Supreme Court issues the Dred Scott decision Lecompton Constitution declares that slavery will be allowed in Kansas

  • 1858

    1858
    Abraham Lincoln debates Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate race

  • 1859

    1859
    John Brown and followers staged a failed raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to incrite a slave insurrection

  • 1860-1861

    1860-1861
    South Carolina and six other southern states secede from the Union
    Crittenden Compromise is proposed but fails

  • 1861

    1861
    Fort Sumter falls to Confederate forces, triggers Civil war

  • 1861

    1861
    Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated president