Timeline

=Chapter Timeline =

===1820- The Missouri Compromise prohibits slavery in the place that became Kansas territory. === ===1850- The Compromise of 1850 allows California to enter the Union as a free state. ===

1850- The Fugitive Slave Act is passed.
===1854- The Kansas-Nebraska Act creates two new U.S. territories and allows settlers to choose whether slavery will be allowed there. ===

1855- The Topeka Constitutional Convention is held.
===1856- A year of violence includes an attack on Lawrence and the Pottawatomie Massacre. === ===1857- The Supreme Court rules in the Dread Scott Decision that are not citizens of the United States. ===

1858- The Leavenwoth Constitutional Convention is held.
===1859- The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention produces an anti-slavery constitution that becomes the bases of our state government. 1859- John Brown is hung for treason. ===