15.7: Chronology
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The following chronology is a list of important dates and events associated with this chapter.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1846 | David Wilmot attempted to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Wilmot Proviso |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War; Whig Zachary Taylor elected president |
| 1849 | California applied for admission to the Union as a free state |
| 1850 | Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to resolve questions about slavery in the Mexican Cession; Zachary Taylor died and Millard Fillmore succeeded him as president; Compromise of 1850 approved by Congress |
| 1851 | Fugitive Slave Act (part of the Compromise of 1850) heightened concern about slavery in the North |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin heightened concern about abolition in the South; Democrat Franklin Pierce elected president |
| 1853 | Pierre Soulé, James Buchanan, and John Mason issued the Ostend Manifesto suggesting the United States planned to acquire Cuba by force if necessary; James Gadsden negotiated the purchase of additional land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase |
| 1854 | Stephen A. Douglas introduced a bill to organize the Kansas and Nebraska territories, which opened the territories to slavery contrary to the Missouri Compromise; Congress approved the Kansas-Nebraska Act; Second party system collapsed as the Know-Nothings and the Republicans formed to replace the Whigsy |
| 1856 | Antislavery and proslavery advocates fought to win Kansas in the Sack of Lawrence and the Pottawatomie Massacre (Bleeding Kansas); Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber (Bleeding Sumner); Democrat James Buchanan elected president |
| 1857 | Supreme Court issued its decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated blacks could not be citizens of the United States; North suffered the effects of the Panic of 1857; Kansas applied for statehood as a slave state with the Lecompton Constitution prompting a split in the Democratic Part |
| 1858 | Lincoln-Douglas debates highlighted the problem of slavery and paved the way for the next presidential election |
| 1859 | John Brown launched an attack on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia |
| 1860 | Democratic Party nominated two candidates for president, Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckenridge; Constitutional Union Party nominated John Bell for president; Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president; Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina seceded from the Union |
| 1861 | Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union; Southern states formed the Confederate States of America; Crittenden Compromise proposed in an effort to prevent further disunion |