SS Test

California enters the union as a free state

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• New Political Party

If caught helping a slave escape you could get six months in jail and a $1000 fine

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Violence in the Senate

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

On December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes

• Compromise of 1850

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Election of 1860

Scott is a slave, and therefore property and can’t sue

• Compromise of 1850

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Dred Scott Decision

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

Lincoln becomes nationally known

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• New Political Party

• Election of 1860

Preston Brooks, Butler’s cousin attacks Sumner with his cane (walking stick) 

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

• Violence in the Senate

• Election of 1860

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

 Eight hundred pro-slavery people attacked the abolitionist city of Lawrence

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

• Violence in the Senate

• "Bleeding Kansas"

African Americans do not have any rights

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Election of 1860

• "Bleeding Kansas"

Missouri Compromise is Unconstitutional, only states can outlaw slavery

• Dred Scott Decision

• New Political Party

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Lincoln wins with only 40% of the popular vote

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• New Political Party