Chapter Chronology

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Chapter Review

Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 14

Question

This chronology lists significant historical events covered in the chapter but not all of them are directly related. To complete this activity, select three to five events and write a creative, paragraph-length story that explains how these events are connected, what happened, and why it matters.
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CHRONOLOGY

1820
  • Missouri Compromise.
1846
  • Wilmot Proviso introduced.
1847
  • Wilmot Proviso defeated in Senate.
  • “Popular sovereignty” compromise offered.
1848
  • Free-Soil Party founded.
  • Zachary Taylor elected president.
1849
  • California gold rush.
1850
  • Taylor dies; Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes president.
  • Compromise of 1850 becomes law.
1852
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin published.
  • Franklin Pierce elected president.
1853
  • Gadsden Purchase.
1854
  • American (Know-Nothing) Party emerges.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  • Republican Party founded.
1856
  • “Bleeding Kansas.”
  • “Sack of Lawrence.”
  • Pottawatomie massacre.
  • James Buchanan elected president.
1857
  • Dred Scott decision.
  • Congress rejects Lecompton constitution.
  • Panic of 1857.
1858
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates; Douglas wins Senate seat.
1859
  • John Brown raids Harpers Ferry.
1860
  • Abraham Lincoln elected president.
  • South Carolina secedes from Union.
1861
  • Six other Lower South states secede.
  • Confederate States of America formed.