| Hint | Event | Date |
| Kentucky Senator, Introduced Compromise of 1850 | |
| Illinois Senator, helped draft Compromise of 1850 | |
| Massachusetts Senator, Supported Compromise of 1850 | |
| South Carolina Senator, Supported Compromise of 1850 | |
| Work by Nathaniel Hawthorne published | |
| This California city incorporated | |
| This California city incorporated | |
| 1st blue jeans made by | |
| 12th President, dies in office | |
| Former Vice President, and last Whig, sworn in as 13th President | |
| Gold discovered in this state at Rogue River | |
| This Hawaiian city incorporated | |
| | Hint | Event | Date |
| Admitted as 31st State | |
| Created as Territory | |
| Created as Territory | |
| 'Swedish Nightingale', gives first US concert (set up by P.T. Barnum) | |
| Controversial slavery bill passed as part of Compromise of 1850 | |
| Slave trade abolished, but slavery continues, in this district | |
| Papal Bull re-establishes Catholic hierarchy in this nation | |
| US Navy abolishes this punishment | |
| Becomes British Poet Laureate, position held until death in 1892 | |
| Treaty, Punctation of Olmutz, confirms diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to this empire | |
| Burmese city destroyed by fire | |
| Rescues her own family, becomes leader of Underground Railroad | |
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