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| April 15, 1793 | [circa] Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin | Georgia |
| April 30, 1803 | President Thomas Jefferson agrees to buy Louisiana from the French for $11,250,000 plus assumption of up to $3,750,000 in claims of U. S. citizens against France | |
| Louisiana Purchase | ||
| August 10, 1821 | Missouri is admitted to the Union | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| March 2, 1833 | Congress passes the Tariff Act of 1833, sometimes called the Compromise Tariff, proposed by Henry Clay and calling for the gradual reduction of tariffs to the 1816 levels, ending the Nullification Crisis | |
| Nullification Crisis | ||
| Henry Clay | ||
| August 8, 1846 | U. S. President James Polk requests 2 million dollars to purchase land from Mexico following the Mexican-American War. David Wilmot of Pennsylvania attaches the "Wilmot Proviso" to this bill. It passes in the House but is tabled in the Senate. | Pennsylvania |
| Wilmot Proviso | ||
| Wilmot Proviso [full text] | ||
| James Polk | ||
| John A. McClernand | ||
| Stephen A. Douglas | ||
| September 19, 1850 | Millard Fillmore signs the last of the Acts approved by Congress that comprise the Compromise of 1850 | |
| Compromise of 1850 | ||
| Millard Fillmore | ||
| March 20, 1852 | First publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| Civil War Firsts | ||
| May 30, 1854 | President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law. | Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| Kansas becomes a state | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| Franklin Pierce | ||
| March 6, 1857 | Supreme Court hands down the ruling in the Dred Scott case. | |
| Roger B. Taney | ||
| Dred Scott decision | ||
| October 16, 1859 | John Brown takes the armory at Harpers Ferry | Maryland |
| John Brown | ||
| Harpers Ferry | ||
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | ||
| November 6, 1860 | Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential election with 39.7% of the vote, defeating Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge and John Bell. | |
| Stephen A. Douglas | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| John Breckinridge | ||
| The Election of 1860 |
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