Tensions between The North and the South

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  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Published

    Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

  • Notable Speech about Slavery

    Frederick Douglass delivered notable speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro.”

  • Bleeding Kansas

    The bloody Conflict in Kansas, started in November, could have lasted till the civil war began.

  • Charles Sumner Attacked

    Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was attacked and beaten with a cane in the US Senate chamber by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina.

  • Dred Scott

    The Dred Scott Decision was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • John Brown Raid

    Abolitionist John Brown launched a raid against the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

  • South Carolina Succeeds

    The south declares that it is succeeding from the union, this is the climax of the tensions between the north and south, and encourages other states in the south to succeed

  • Civil War

    Civil war is fully declared and the south is trying to Succeed