| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1850 |
Compromise of 1850 |
| March 1, 1850 |
Calhoun addresses Senate on Clay's proposals |
| March 7, 1850 |
Webster reply to Calhoun |
| March 31, 1850 |
Benton-Foote confrontation in Senate |
| April 18, 1850 |
Committee of thirteen selected |
| January 1, 1852 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteFranklin Pierce (Democratic) 50.9 254 |
| June 1, 1852 |
Baltimore Democratic Party convention |
| June 16, 1852 |
Whig convention in Baltimore,put in Compromise measures |
| January 1, 1853 |
civil service reform requiring clerks to pass an examination |
| January 1, 1854 |
Illinois elects Republican Lyman Trumbull |
| January 1, 1854 |
Steven Douglas introduces Kansas-Nebraska act |
| January 1, 1854 |
Douglas moves to exempt Nebraska |
| March 1, 1854 |
Alvan E. Bovay founds Republican party |
| January 1, 1855 |
Republicans outdistance Know-Nothings,absorbing voters |
| January 1, 1856 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteJames Buchanan (Democratic) 45.3 174 |
| January 1, 1856 |
rule of debate considered after philibuster |
| February 1, 1856 |
Know-Nothings (American Party) holds national council meeting |
| February 22, 1856 |
Republicans national organizing convention in Pittsburg |
| May 14, 1856 |
Sumner denunciates Douglas' views |
| May 22, 1856 |
Brooks beats Sumner with cane on Senate floor |
| June 2, 1856 |
Democratic National convention in Cincinnati |
| January 1, 1857 |
U.S. Supreme Court beings Dred Scott v. Sanford case |
| January 1, 1858 |
approval of a proslavery Constitution |
| January 1, 1858 |
Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| January 1, 1858 |
success of People's Party in Pennsylvania |
| December 1, 1858 |
Douglas removed from Committee on Territories |
| January 1, 1859 |
Vice President Arron Burr voted with Federalists,ending Republican alleigance |
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