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Recent Event Highlights: Kansas-Nebraska Act, and 8 more...

Created by dogscangrowbeardsallover on Apr 13, 2011

Last updated: 04/15/11 at 10:23 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 13, 2011 10:18 AM

• Election of 1860
  Feb 1860

  The nation divided by Lincoln and Douglas, union is made.
  http://history1800s.about.com/od/presidentialcampaigns/a/1860election.htm

• Raid on Harper's Ferry
  Aug 1859

  John Brown and a group of supporters attacked a small plan to steal weapons.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  1858

  Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
  http://www.bartleby.com/251/

• Dred Scott Desision
  Mar 1858

  Dred Scott tries to sue his owner because it was illegal where they lived. Lost because slaves don't have the same rights.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

• Attack on Charles Sumner
  May 22, 1856

  Charles Sumner, a northern senator and abolitionist, get beat with a cane by southern congressman Preston Brooks.
  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/preston-brooks-attacks-charles-sumner

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
  1854

  Kansas and Nebraska were added as free states.

• Bleeding Kansas
  1854

  Many people moved to Kansas to vote for slavery. Neighbors were killing each other over slavery.
  http://americanhistory.about.com/od/beforethewar/g/bleedingkansas.htm

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  1852

  A novel about a slave that was beaten to death by his owner.
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/uncletom/

• Fugitive Slave Act
  Sep 1850

  People from the north could bring wanted run away slaves back to their owners.

• Compromise of 1850
  Sep 1850

  Congress passed five bills based on Henry Clay's proposal.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html