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Nat Turner leads a slave revolt
An eclipse of the sun led slave, Nat Turner, to believe that it was time rebel. Along with 6 other slaves killed the Travis family. Then he enlist about 75 other slaves and killed 51 white people. It put fear in Southerner and resulted in harsher slave laws. -
William Llyod Garrison launches The Liberator
Garrison, abolitionist and leader of the anti-slavery movement, published The liberator to show the moral travesty that slavery was made of. His work became well known. He established the New England Anti-Slavery Society. He eventually saw the 13th Amendment that banned slavery. -
America Anti-Slavery founded in Boston
Led by William Llyod Garrison, Arthur Tappan founded the American Anti-slavery Society to lecture, petition, printed material, and slave testimony, such as Fredirick Douglass and Williams Wells Brown -
Sarah Grimke Letters on the Equaltiy of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
She began as an advocate for the abolition of slavery, when she started defending women's rights. She argued that women had the same rights and duites as men. Her radical words contributed to the feminist movement -
Henry Highland Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
At the Convention of Free People of Color in Buffalo, New York, abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet openly encouraged slave rebellion. -
Frederick Douglass publishes North Star
An escaped slave in Massachussetts, Frederick Douglas became an abolitionist by speaking, helped other slaves escape, and established the North Star paper that was the most influential black anti-slavery papers -
women's rights convention at seneca falls
It was the first woman's right convention, led by Lucretia Scott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A document similar to the Declaration of Independence was read for the conditions and rights for women. It was followed by a larger convention at Rochester. These conventions provided an important focus on women's suffrage. -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
She was in fear that she was going to be sold, she decided to run away. Her husband refused, she followed the North Star with her two brothers to the north It led to her motivation to help others escape slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act allowed local government to seize runaway slaves and return them to their owners and punish any others involved. This was a strict effort to stop slaves from escaping to the North for freedom -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
It illustrates slavery's effect on families, and helps readers empathize with enslaved characters. She outwardly debates the causes of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, the future of freed people, what an individual could do, and racism. It was a strong contributer to the start of the Civil War -
Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman
Truth was a runaway slave who became a preacher who was also involved in the anti-slavery and feminist movement. She delievered thi famous speech at Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio -
Republican Party Founded
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Whig dissolved. Anti-slavery Whigs had discusion of a new party that soon became the the Republican Party -
Civil War in Kansas known as Bleeding Kansas
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, proslavery and anti-slavery people flooded in and violently fought for control. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It created the territory of Kansas and Nebraska, that repealed the Missouri Compromise. The status of slavery was to be determined by popular sovereignty, leading to Bleeding Kansas and ultimately the civil war -
Charles Sumner beating
Senator Charles Sumner addressed the Senate on the decision that Kansas will be decided by popular sovereignty on how it much of an issue it was. He blamed two democratic senators as the culprits. Representative Preston Brooks was one of the senator's kinsman. Brooks hit Charles Sumner with a medal topped cane -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was a slave who's owner resided in free territory. The Supreme Court established black people were not citizens, they were property -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
The Lecompton Constitution was one of the four proposed constitutions for Kansas. It supported slavery and protected slave owners' rights. The people of Kansas and Congress rejected the constitution. Northern Democrats and Republicans disagreed with the violation of popular sovereignty. The majority of Kansas did not want slavery -
LIncoln Douglas Debates
Both were competing for one of the illinois Senator seats.They both debated in seven of the nine Illinois Congressional Districts. Although LIncoln lost, it boosted him and helped to later become president -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Brown and some of his supporters raided Harpers Ferry. They captured some citizens and seized the federal amory and arsenal. He was hoping that he would inspire a local slave revolt, yet it did not work and he was charged with treason -
Election of 1860
The democrats had been divided and torn with who should be nominated for president. The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, Southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge, Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, the Constitutional Union party nominated John Bell. Lincoln won.
