Here's a timeline of all the events and literature I've talked about in these posts. Thanks for checking this out; I've tried to make this understandable for anyone who's around high school age, and I've tried to link any unfamiliar terms or names to pictures and credible information sites. I hope you've enjoyed yourself and learned something! The last post will me my list of works cited. 

Timeline 

3 March 1820 – Missouri Compromise 

1835 – Channing’s Slavery published

1841 - Emerson’s Self-Reliance published

1 August 1844 – Emerson’s Address on Emancipation in the West Indies

1845 –Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass published

29 December 1845 – Texas annexed

13 May 1846 – 2 February 1848 – Mexican-American War

1849 – Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government published

September 1850 – Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law

24 May – 2 June 1854 – Anthony Burns Trial

May 30, 1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854-1859 – “Bleeding Kansas”

16 – 18 October 1859 – John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

30 October 1859 – Thoreau’s “A Plea for Captain John Brown”

6 January 1860 – Emerson’s “John Brown”

6 November 1860 – Lincoln elected

12 April 1861 – Civil War begins