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1850-1860
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Compromise of 1850
The admission of California as a free state and applies the notion of “popular sovereignty” to the Utah and New Mexico territories. Congress abolishes the slave trade in the District of Columbia, but strengthens the Fugitive Slave law -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Connecticut teacher and an active abolitionist. Accused of starting the war with the publishment of the book. The book itself is a slightly exgagerated terible life of a slave. -
Repblican Party formed
Formed in 1854 The party focused their platform on preventing the spread of slavery in the western territories. In a proposal known as the "Wilmot Proviso," he had urged that slavery be prohibited from any territory acquired as a result of that conflict. It was never passed into law but nonetheless became the basis for the Republican movement. -
"Crime Against Kansas"
In his "Crime Against Kansas" speech, Charles Sumner identified two Democratic senators as the principal culprits in this crime. In his "Crime against Kansas" speech on May 19 and May 20, Sumner attacked the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The long speech argued for the immediate admission of Kansas as a free state. -
Lawrence, Kansas sacked
The two printing offices were sacked, the presses destroyed, and the type thrown in the river. The planned work was finished by destroying the Free State Hotel. -
Caning of Sumner
Sumner blamed and mocked Andrew Butler, of South Carolina. Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs -
Lincoln and Douglas
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John Brown reaches Harper Ferry
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John Brown Executed
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Constitutional Union Party Formed