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Formation of Free-Soil Party
Political party, that is a third party and a single issue party. It's main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery to the western territory. -
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The Missouri Compromise
Admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
Package of five different bills passed by the United States Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and slave free states regarding the status of territories won in the Mexican-American war. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Cival War" according to Will Kaufman. -
Formation of the Republican Party
Former members of the Whig party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery in the Western Territories. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political confrontations in the U.S involving Anti-Slavery Free Staters and Pro Slavery "Border Ruffian", that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state Missouri. -
Dred-Scott Case
The United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western Territory. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led an army of 18 men into the town of Haper's Ferry in Virgina, and planned to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. -
The Election of 1860
Northen Democrats nominated Stephan Douglas for President, Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge. The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for president.
