APUSH-Unit 5 (1844-1877)

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    APUSH- Unit 5

  • William Lloyd Garrison launches the Liberator

    Garrison's Liberator is a abolitionist newspaper that was oublished in Massachusetts untiil slavery was abolished.

  • Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia

    Turner lead the largest slave revolt in history which led to the education of slaves and prohibition of slavery.

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

    Sarah became one the the earliest women to argue that women's role are equal to that of the men.

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

    During Garnet's "Address to the slaves of the United States of America," he call for open slave rebellion and urged slaves to claim their own freedom.

  • Frederick Douglas published the North Star

    Frederick Douglas published the "North Star" newspaper when he escaped slavery in an effort to promote freedom for all slaves.

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

    The Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls was the first women's right convention, it stressed the social, religious, and civil rights of women.

  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery

    Harriet Tubman escapes slavery which will pave the way for her to lead others to freedom, thus creating the Underground Railroad.

  • Fugitive Slave Act passed

    Tht Fugitive Slave act was a federal law that allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without interference of the law and prevented anyone from aiding runaways.

  • Charles Sumner beating

    Senator Charles Sumner was severely beaten by a member of the House of Representatives resulting from earlier altercations during the addressing of Kansas as a slave or free state.

  • Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" Speech

    In Truth's "Ain't I A Woman" Speech she expressed the importance of women rights.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom' s Cabin is an anit-slavery novel that laid the "groundwork for the Civil War" according to Kaufman.

  • Republican Party Founded

    The republican party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, it was established to oppose the spread of slavery.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

    Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska thus opening new lands for settlement and also creating the issue of whether theywould be slave states or not.

  • Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"

    "Bleeding Kansas" was a period of violence the settlement of the Kansas area that, in part, resulted from 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act in which the settlers of Kansas would decide whether the state would be free or slave.

  • Supreme Court's Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott was suing for his freedom, but was told that "no blacks, free or enslaved, could claim U.S citizenship; this led to heightened North-South tensions and enraged abolitionists.

  • Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress

    Constitution proposed by pro-slavery southerners about Kansas settelment.

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    The Lincoln - Douglas debates were a series of debates between the two politcians for the control of the Illinois, the main issue discused at the debates was slavery.

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

    Raid led by John Brown in an attempt to start a slave rebellion and end slavery.

  • Election of 1860

    The election of 1860 set the stage for the upcoming civil war, Lincoln succeeded.