Timeline: 1848-1860

Question 0

1849

Answer 0

California goldrush

Question 1

1848

Answer 1

Mexican cession and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
(After end of Mexican-American war)

Gold is found in Sutters Mill California

Question 2

1850

Answer 2

California applies for statehood would be the 31st state /16th free

Compromise

• California a free State
• popular sovereignty to decide slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories
• Washington DC slave trade abolished
• federal fugitive slave act

Question 3

1852

Answer 3

Uncle Tom’s cabin is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 4

1853

Answer 4

Gadsen purchase from Mexico

Question 5

1854

Answer 5

Kansas Nebraska act

repeal of the Missouri compromise line replaced with popular sovereignty

Question 6

1855

Answer 6

territorial legislature in Kansas voting fraud
Missouri border ruffians
two governments one proslavery and one free stators

Question 7

1856

Answer 7

Sack of Lawrence
- Free stators killed by proslavery men

Sumner delivers crimes against Kansas speech and is caned by Rep. Brooks

John Brown kills five proslavery men at pottawatomie Creek Kansas

Question 8

1857

Answer 8

Dred Scott case

3630 line Unconstitutional

Question 9

1858

Answer 9

Lincoln Douglas debates

Douglas wins reelection but his Freeport heresy splits the Democratic Party

Question 10

1859

Answer 10

John Brown’s raid on arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia revolt stopped by Robert E Lee

Question 11

1860

Answer 11

Abraham Lincoln elected Pres.

South Carolina is first state to secede and seven more before Lincolns inauguration