Timeline pre - 1861

Question 1

Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state but prohibits slavery elsewhere in the Louisiana Purchase territory above 36/36 North Latitude

Answer 1

1820

Question 2

Nat Tucker’s rebellion in Virginia shocks the South

Answer 2

• 1831

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison founds the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

Answer 3

• 1831

Question 4

Texas admitted to the Union

Answer 4

• 1945

Question 5

Compromise: California admitted as a free state, tough fugitive slave laws enacted

Answer 5

• 1850

Question 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin, heightens Northern awareness of slavery

Answer 6

• 1854

Question 7

John Brown, in an attempt to amass arms for a slave insurrection, attacks the federal armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Answer 7

• October 16–18, 1859

Question 8

Brown is hanged for murder and treason at Charles Town, Virginia.

Answer 8

• Dec 2 1859

Question 9

Abraham Lincoln is elected President, with Hannibal Hamlin as his Vice President.

Answer 9

• Nov 6 1960

Question 10

As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.

Answer 10

Dec 20th 1860