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Compromise of 1850
January 29, 1850, they attempted to solve the cris between the South and the North. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was put in act and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was gotten rid of. Also California became a free state. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundary problem between Texas and New Mexico. -
1854 - 1856 Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a mini civil war between pro and anti slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. -
1854 Kansa Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska act was an 1854 bill allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. -
1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford
Sandford had a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. -
1858 Lincoln - Douglas Debates
The Lincoln Douglas debates were series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senator campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery into the territories. -
1859 John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed revolution of enslaved people and destroy slavery. -
1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln
In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won.