Pre-Civil War

By brady1492

  • GBR/US Joint Occupation in Oregon

    • missionaries attempt to spread CHR

  • Americans Declare Independence from Mexico

    • American settling in MXC begins in 1824
    • revolt occurs after Santa Anna regains power

  • Polk defeats Clay

    • election issue is Texas/Oregon (Texas admitted by Tyler before leaving office)

  • Texas admitted

  • Troops Sent to Texas (for protection)

    • under Zachary Taylor
    • also to possibly acquire New Mexico/California

  • South of the 49th Parallel

    • treaty with GBR

  • War Against Mexico

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago

    • Nicholas Trist

  • Taylor wins election v. Cass/Van Buren

    • Whig

  • Discovery of Gold in California

    • immigrants from America, China

  • Compromise of 1850

    • Clay introduces plan: California is free, territories able to govern according to popular sovereignty, no slave trade in DC, and more effective slave trade laws.
    • doesn't pass
    • Douglas proposes them as singular measures, all pass.

  • Fillmore Succeeds Taylor

    • after Taylor's sudden death

  • Pierce wins 1852 Election

    • avoids topic of slavery (but becomes an issue as N defies Fugitive Slave Acts)
    • tries to buy Cuba, Hawaii, Canada; fails

  • Gadsen Purchase

    • buys southern part of Arizona/New Mexico for $10 million
    • for railroads

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    • popular sovereignty will decide legislature in new states
    • kind of repeals the MO Compromise in the process (explicit in actual one to statisfy Southern Democrats)
    • Republicans form out of Whigs and divided Democrats

  • Bleeding Kansas

    • voting is skewed in Kansas as many Missourians come to vote (in favor of slavery)
    • two governments set up, fighting (John Brown, Sumner/Brooks) ensues

  • Buchanan wins 1856 Election

    • depression follows entry into office (strengthens Republicans)
    • Democrat
    • tries to enter Kansas as slave state, but ends up being free

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    • Taney rules that Scott is property, not a citizen
    • MO Compromise is unconstitutional (no authority to take property [i.e. slaves] in slave states)
    • Congress cannot take property

  • Congressional Election of 1858

    • Lincoln versus Douglas in Illinois
    • Lincoln emerges, free labor, slavery is morally wrong but not an abolitionist
    • Douglas wins

  • Lincoln wins 1860 Election

    • Republican win, other candidates: Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell
    • disunion begins