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Chapter 15: The Union Broken |
1840-1860 Expansion of railroad network: western trade reoriented toward the East
1846-1854 Mass immigration to United States: nativist feeling intensifies
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act: repeal of Missouri Compromise produces great northern outcry
Republican party organized: sectional party tries to capitalize on anti-Nebraska sentiment in the North
Peak of immigration: Know-Nothings rapidly gain popularity
1855 Fighting begins in Kansas: increases sectional tensions
Republican party organizes in key northern states: but makes little headway against the Know-Nothings
1856 Sack of Lawrence: strengthens the Republican party
Caning of Charles Sumner: incident strengthens the Republican party
Pottawattomie massacre: violence escalates in Kansas as a result of John Brown’s murders
Buchanan elected president: Democrats narrowly beat back the Republican challenge
1857 Dred Scott decision: ruling that Congress cannot prohibit slavery from a territory creates a political furor
Panic and depression: Democrats weakened by economic downturn
Lecompton Constitution drafted: recognizes the legality of slavery in Kansas
1858 Congress rejects Lecompton Constitution: Democratic party badly divided along sectional lines
Lincoln-Douglas debates: establish Lincoln as a national Republican leader
1859 John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry: southern fears, disunion sentiments intensify
1860 Democratic party ruptures at Charleston: party divides along sectional lines
Lincoln elected president: first national triumph of a sectional antislavery party
South Carolina secedes
1861 Rest of Deep South secedes; Confederate States of America established
Crittenden Compromise defeated: hopes for peaceful settlement dashed
War begins at Fort Sumter: Confederacy resists Lincoln’s effort to resupply the fort
Upper South secedes: four more states, led by Virginia, join the Confederacy
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