Chapter Review: Timeline of Events

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1842 John C. Frémont leads expedition along the Oregon Trail
1843 Marcus and Narcissa Whitman lead 1,000 Christian emigrants to the Oregon Territory
1845 Texas granted statehood
1846 Dred Scott and his family sue for their freedom
1848 Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California
1850 Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act passed
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854 U.S.-Japanese treaty allows for mutual trading
Republican Party founded
May 1854 Fugitive slave Anthony Burns returned to his owner
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
1854–1858 Period of violence in Bleeding Kansas
1857 Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott case
1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates
October 16, 1859 John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
December 2, 1859 John Brown executed
November 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president
December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union
January 1861 Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede
February 1861 Confederate States of America established
March 1861 Lincoln inaugurated as president