A House Divided

By kaylendouglas

  • The Compromise of 1850

    The compromise was made to settle disputes about slavery and treat the threat of the Union dispanding.

  • California Statehood

    Californians sought statehood, and after a heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    The reading helped many understand the immense pain enslaved mothers felt when their children were taken away from them.

  • Creation of the Republican Party

    The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists in opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, seeking to prevent the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories.

  • The Kansas Nebraska Act

    This act was passed because many believed that settlers in the new territories should have a say in whether slavery should be legal in their area.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    This event resulted from an intense debate over slavery and if it should be legal in Kansas.

  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

    Charles Sumner had informed the Senate on the issue of whether Kansas should be a free or slave state.

  • The Dred Scott Decision

    The decision was that the Supreme Court upheld slavery in US territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

  • Lincoln's A House Divided Speech

    Lincoln made this speech to the Republicans across the North about the dangers of a slavery based disunion.

  • Presidential Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest. Although Lincoln received less than 40% of the popular vote, he easily won the Electoral College vote over Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell.