<Li> The Methodist Episcopal Church, South breaks away from the Methodist Episcopal Church on the issue of slavery . </Li> <Li> Well - known black abolitionist, Charles Lenox Remond, and famous white abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, declare they would rather see the union dissolved than keep the Constitution only through the retention of slavery . </Li> <Tr> <Td> 1845 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Florida, a slave state, is admitted to the United States . </Li> <Li> The Southern Baptist Convention breaks from the Northern Baptists but does not formally endorse slavery . </Li> <Li> Frederick Douglass publishes his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself . The book details his life as a slave . </Li> <Li> Former U.S. Representative and Governor of South Carolina, and future U.S. Senator, James Hammond writes Two Letters on Slavery in the United States, Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. in which he expresses the view that slavery is a positive good . </Li> <Li> Anti-slavery advocates denounce Texas Annexation as evil expansion of slave territory . Whigs defeat an annexation treaty but Congress annexes Texas to the United States as a slave state by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress on a joint resolution without ratification of a treaty by a two - thirds vote in the U.S. Senate . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Florida, a slave state, is admitted to the United States . </Li> <Li> The Southern Baptist Convention breaks from the Northern Baptists but does not formally endorse slavery . </Li> <Li> Frederick Douglass publishes his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself . The book details his life as a slave . </Li> <Li> Former U.S. Representative and Governor of South Carolina, and future U.S. Senator, James Hammond writes Two Letters on Slavery in the United States, Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. in which he expresses the view that slavery is a positive good . </Li> <Li> Anti-slavery advocates denounce Texas Annexation as evil expansion of slave territory . Whigs defeat an annexation treaty but Congress annexes Texas to the United States as a slave state by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress on a joint resolution without ratification of a treaty by a two - thirds vote in the U.S. Senate . </Li> </Ul>

Order of events leading to the civil war