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William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
The Liberator was a newspaper where Garrison advocated for many things like woman's suffrage and antislavery, and it became the most influential newspaper in the antebellum slave crusade. -
Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia
This rebellion was the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. History, which put fear in the Southerners, making them put laws that prohibited slave education, movement, and assembly and esculated proslavery until the Civil War. -
American Anti-Slavery founded in Boston
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Sarah Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
She argued for women's rights and she aquired a following to agree with her, which influenced the movement towards women's right. -
Henry Highland Garnet's "Adress to the Slaves of the United States of America"
Garnet's speech encouraged slaves to revolt against their owners. -
Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
This was the first woman's rights convention organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and here is where The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievences was adopted and signed, calling woman to organize and petition for their rights. -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery
Harriet escaping slavery led her to become a legendary slave abolitionist, returning to help other slaves escape and risking her life for the freedom of her people. -
Fugitive Slave Act passed
This act was allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the U.S territory, but was rebelled against with abolitonist and the Underground Railroad. -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?' speech
After Truth was freed from slavery, she became an anti-slavery speaker, and this speech was one of the most famous abolitionist and woman's rights speeches in American History. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
The novel was anti-slavery based, and it had a great influence on the way America viewed slavery and is said to be the real reason the Civil War started. -
Republican Party founded
This party was founded in Wisconsin by the former whig party to establish a party that opposed the spread of slavery to the western territories. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passes
This act allowed people in the territories pf Kansas Nebrask to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders, in turn bringing in anti and pro-slavery supporters to affect the election and violence erupted many times, but the territory was eventually admited a free state. -
Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"
The term "Bleeding Knasas" is used for the period of violence that occured in Kansas during the Civil War from 1854-1861, consisting of the looting of a town in 1856, murders, and massacres. -
Charles Sumner beating
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Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
The decision of the Supreme Court was that affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves in the Western territories, inflaming regional tensions which eventually led to the Civil War 4 years later. -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
This was a constitution made predominantely by slaveholding legislators that protected the rights of slaveowners and refuted the Topeka Constitution, which was boycotted by Free-staters, even though they tried to cross the borders to intimidate and illegally vote, the constitution was eventually rejected. -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
These were debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass for the senate seats in Illinois, and although Lincoln lost these debates launched him into national prominence and eventually led to his election as president. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
His attempt was to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery, and it failed overrall, but it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 election and became an important impetus of the Civil War.