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RISE OF THE RADICAL ABOLITIONIST

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1834 Slavery abolished in the British Empire

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1836 The Gag rule passed to prevent discussion of abolition of slave trade in Washington D.C.

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1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy, white abolitionist, murdered

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1838 Underground Railroad established

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WESTWARD EXPANSION
TEXAS
OREGON
CALIFORNIA

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1840s Oregon Fever; Polk runs for president vowing “54’40 or fight!”

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1845 Publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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1846 The Mexican-American War

therefore, more us territories

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1847 The North Star first published by Frederick Douglass.

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1848 Seneca Falls Convention-women’s rights campaign

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1848 Discovery of Gold in CA

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1849 Gold Rush in CA--desire to quickly make CA a state, bypassing territorial phase

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THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT GETS VIOLENT

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The compromise of 1850

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1852 Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

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1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1855 Bleeding Kansas

1855 Bleeding Sumner

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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1859 John Brown’s Raid on Harper's Ferry

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START AND SPAN OF THE WAR
(1861-1865)

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Lincoln Inaguration

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Battle of Fort Sumter; Civil War begins

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“The Lexington of 1861”