APUSH Unit-5

By JayZJoyner

  • Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia

    Enslaved Virginians led by Nat Turner and his group of enslaved men revolted against the white owners, killing them in their sleep.

  • William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator

    The Liberator was a abolishinist newspaper based out of Boston, Massachusetts that brought the end to many racist acts such as the Compromise of 1850.

  • American Anti-Slavery founded in Boston

    Founded by William Lloyd Harrison, the American Anti Slavery Society was formed to abolish slavery.

  • Sarah Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women

    These letters written by Sarah Grimke were in response of Catherine Beecher's defense of subordinate role of women.

  • Henry Highland Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"

    The "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" was a speech that openly called for a rebellion amungst slaves. The speech was not endorsed because of one vote.

  • Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York

  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery

  • Fugitive Slave Act passed

  • Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Republican Party founded

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

  • Period: to

    Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"

  • Charles Sumner beating

  • Frederick Douglass published the North Star

  • Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision

  • Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Election of 1860