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Free-Soil Party was formed
Northern opponents of slavery formed it to prevent the expansion of slavery into the western territories. -
Compromise of 1850
California was admitted as a free state but in the other territory aquired from Mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue themselves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
A powerful story about slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which divides the Nebrask Territory into kansas and nebraska. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme Court rules that federal government does not have power to outlaw slavery within territories. -
State Convention
Meeting in charleston, without a dissenting vote, the convention declated that "the union now subsistion between south carolina and the other states, under the name of the "United states of america" is herebu dissolved. -
Fort Sumter war
southern states seceded, they seized the federal forts -
Confederate States of America established
Seven seceding states -
Lincoln sworn into office as president
went into office -
The Battle Of Gettysburg
It destroyed one third of Lee's forces and marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North. -
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address speech
Lincoln used the occasion to reaffirm the ideas for which the Union was fighting. -
Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated
He was shot in the head. Vice president Andrew Johnson became president.
