The Nation Breaks Apart
By: Alyssa Marshall
Missouri Compromise 1820
nullifiction crisis of 1828
mexican war/ mexican cession
Brooks-Sumner Affair
Without warning, Brooks rushed forward and began beating the unsuspecting Sumner savagely with a gold-tipped wooden cane. Even after knocking the older man to the ground, Brooks continued raining down blows upon Sumner's bleeding head and defenseless body, only stopping when his cane shattered into pieces. Finally, after perhaps the most shocking few minutes in the history of Congress, Brooks turned and walked calmly out of the chamber, leaving Sumner bloodied and unconscious. Charles Sumner nearly died of the wounds he suffered that day
Compromise of 1850
uncle tom's cabin
Kansas-nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott Case
Harpers Ferry Attack
lincoln-douglas debate
Election of 1860
South Carolina Secedes
On this day, a secession convention meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, unanimously adopted an ordinance dissolving the connection between South Carolina and the United States of America. The convention had been called by the governor and legislature of South Carolina once Lincoln's victory was assured. Delegates were elected on December 6, 1860, and the convention convened on December 17. Its action made South Carolina the first state to secede. Support for the Union was negligible, and a distinguished South Carolina unionist, James L. Petigru, allegedly commented at this time that his state was too small to be a nation and too large to be an insane asylum.