#Slavery-Expansion
Events indexed under #Slavery-Expansion — 7 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1857-11-07 | Lecompton Constitution Referendum Demonstrates Electoral Fraud in Service of Slavery Expansion James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Pro-slavery delegates · Border Ruffians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1854-05-30 | Kansas-Nebraska Act Repeals Missouri Compromise, Triggering Violent Territorial Conflict Stephen A. Douglas · Franklin Pierce · U.S. Congress · Pro-slavery Border Ruffians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1848-11-07 | Free Soil Party Splits Democratic Vote, Demonstrating Slavery's Destruction of Party Unity Martin Van Buren · Free Soil Party · Democratic Party · Whig Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Whig Party opposition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1819-02-22 | Adams-Onís Treaty Acquires Florida Through Coerced Spanish Cession After Jackson's Unauthorized Invasion Secretary of State John Quincy Adams · Spanish Minister Luis de Onís · President James Monroe · General Andrew Jackson | confirmed |