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Charles Sumner
Civil War Encyclopedia >> People - Union Political
| January 6, 1811 | Charles Sumner born, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| August 9, 1848 August 10, 1848 |
The Free-Soil party is formed by dissatisfied Democrats and former Liberty Party members at a convention in Buffalo, N. Y. with delegates from all free states and Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. They nominate Martin Van Buren for President and Charles Francis Adams for Vice-President. | |
| Free-Soil Party | ||
| Election of 1848 | ||
| Martin Van Buren | ||
| Salmon P. Chase | ||
| January 24, 1854 | Salmon Chase (writer) and Charles Sumner (editor) release the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats
in Congress to the People of the United States," attacking the Nebraska Act. (the appeal was written before the act was revised) |
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| Salmon P. Chase | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| May 19, 1856 | Charles Sumner begins his "Crime against Kansas" speech, which concludes tomorrow | Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| Sumner and Brooks | ||
| Preston S. Brooks | ||
| Kansas becomes a state |
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