The Crucial Decade Timeline

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  • Zachary Taylor becomes President

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Millard Fillmore becomes president

  • Fugitive Slave Law enacted

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    Crucial Decade

    The last 10 years leading up to the Civil War.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin published

  • Free-Soil Movement begins

  • Franklin Pierce becomes president

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Anthony Burns Affair

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Case

  • James Buchanan becomes president

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Lincoln's House Divided Speech

  • Harpers Ferry Raid

  • Crittenden Compromise

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes president