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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico and the Mexican American war. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican American War. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
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Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek
Five men murdered from a proslavery settlement on the Pottawatomie Creek. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. ... The 1860 Republican National Convention nominated Lincoln, a moderate former congressman from Illinois, as its standard-bearer. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
The secession convention convened in Columbia on December 17 and voted unanimously, 169-0, to declare secession from the United States. ... When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. -
The Confederate States of America are formed
Commonly referred to as the Confederacy—was an unrecognized republic in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. -
Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
April 12, 1861Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. At 2:30 pm on April 13th, Major
