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HIS 103 Timeline 4
History Timeline 1830-1865
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1830 | First National Negro Convention |
| 1831 | Nat Turner Rebellion |
| 1832 | Virginia votes against gradual emancipation |
| 1844 | James K. Polk becomes president |
| 1846 | Wilmot Proviso seeks to ban slavery in Mexican Territory |
| 1847 | Frederick Douglas publishes The North Star, an antislavery newspaper |
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor becomes president |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 |
| 1851 | Group of free Blacks rescue escaped slave Shadrack from federal authorities in Boston |
| 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is published |
| 1854 | Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South is published |
| 1854-1856 | "Bleeding Kansas" |
| 1856 | James Buchanan becomes president |
| 1857 | Dred Scott case |
| 1858 | Congress refuses to admit Kansas |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln becomes president; South Carolina secedes |
| 1861 | The rest of the South secedes; Confederacy formed; Fort Sumter is fired upon |
| 1862 | Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg |
| 1863 | The Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address |
| 1864 | Lincoln's second term; Sherman's March to the sea |
| 1865 | 13th Amendment passes, abolishing slavery; Lincoln is assassinated; Andres Johnson becomes president; Lee surrenders at Appomattox, ending the Civil War |