1854Anti-Slavery CoaltionAbraham Lincoln
Anti slavery opponents in Illinois organize against the Kansas Nebraska Act
Historical records for United States of America in 1854, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Anti slavery opponents in Illinois organize against the Kansas Nebraska Act
Lincoln campaigns against the extension of slavery into western territories
Anti Nebraska candidates gain support in Illinois politics after Lincolns return to public debate
Admitted to the bar
Graduates from West Point, Thirteenth out 46
Helps draft the Ostend Manifesto
Republican Party begins forming as an anti slavery coalition that Lincoln later joins
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the US Mounted Rifles
Lincoln condemns the Kansas Nebraska Act and argues against the expansion of slavery
Lincoln attacks the Kansas Nebraska Act and the spread of slavery in his Peoria speech
Kansas Nebraska Act helps unite anti slavery Whigs Free Soilers and Democrats against the spread of slavery
Lincoln returns to politics after passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act
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