1850's

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California Gold Rush
Gadsden Purchase
Pike's Peak Gold Rush
Comstock Lode
Fort Laramie Treaty
Matthew Perry
Treaty of Kanagawa
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin & Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

 Kansas-Nebraska Act

 

 Stephen Douglas
Underground Railroad
Violence in the Senate with Charles Sumner, Andrew Butler and Preston Brooks
Dred Scott Decision
Harper's Ferry
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
Bessemer Process
James Buchanan

 

 Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
Republican Party