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History Timeline
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The Missouri Compromise
Admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Formation of Free Soil Party
Anti Slavery with certain members -
Compromise of 1850
In an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. -
Formation of Republican Party
Political part established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territory. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Bleeding Kansas
Was a seriesof violent political confrotations involving anti-slavery free staters and pro-slavery. -
Dred-Scott Case
Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom and lost; case brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners.