Slavery Divides the Country
1. 1850
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
2. 1852
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
3. 1854
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
4. 1854-1858
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
5. 1857
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
6. 1858
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
7. 1859
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
8. 1860
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union
9. 1861
-------- Republican Party founded; fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Lincoln-Douglas debates Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act passed Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; John Brown executed Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede; Confederate States of America established Abraham Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes from the Union