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| CHAPTER 16 | THE CRISIS OF UNION | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1846 |
Wilmot Proviso introduced |
| 1848 |
gold discovered in California |
| 1848 |
Free Soil party started |
| 1848 |
Zachary Taylor elected president |
| July 1850 |
death of Zachary Taylor |
| 1850 |
Compromise of 1850 |
| 1850 |
Fugitive Slave Act |
| 1852 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| 1852 |
election of Franklin Pierce |
| 1853 |
Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan |
| 1853 |
Gadsden Purchase |
| 1854 |
Ostend Manifesto |
| 1854 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| 1854 |
slave Anthony Burns apprehended |
| 1854 |
emergence of Republican party |
| May 22, 1856 |
caning of Charles Sumner |
| May 24, 1856 |
Pottawatomie Massacre |
| 1856 |
election of James Buchanan |
| 1857 |
Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| 1857 |
financial panic |
| 1858 |
Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| 1859 |
John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia |
| November 1860 |
election of Lincoln |
| December 20, 1860 |
secession of South Carolina |
| February 1861 |
Confederate States of America organized |
| February 18, 1861 |
Jefferson Davis inaugurated president of Confederacy |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain the controversies that grew over the issue of slavery in the western
lands acquired from Mexico.
- List and explain the terms of the Compromise of 1850 and show to what extent
those terms were fulfilled through 1861.
- Account for the decline of the Whig party and the rise of the Republican
party, and note the consequences of the change.
- Explain the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the resolution of
that controversy.
- Explain the meaning and importance of the Dred Scott decision.
- Show how the election of 1860 demonstrated the breakup of political cohesion
in the United States.
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