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Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in VA
Nat Turner leads slave rebellion that took place in Southhampton county , which turned out to be the largest slave revolt in the united states -
American Anti-Slavery founded in Boston
Anti-slavery society in boston founded in 1831 -
Sarah Grimke's letter on the equality
Grimke was the first to defend the rights of women to speak publlicly -
Henry Highland Garnet's address to the slave of the United States
At the national negro convention in NEW york, henry highland called for an open slavery rebellion in the crowd, which encouraged slaves to rebel against their owners -
Douglas publishes "The North Star"
he wanted to promote freedom for all slave and itt got its name because slaves escaping at night followed the North Star in the sky to freedom. -
Women's rights convention-Seneca Falls, NY
first ever women's right convention in United States -
Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery
Harriet Tubman traveled the underground railraod to escape to Philadelphia . -
Fugitive Slave act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture. -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a woman"
Anti-slavery and women's rights activist Truth delivers speech that brings great attention to major issues -
Harriet Beecher "Unlce Tom's /cabin"
Novel helped lay the bridge-work for civil rights -
republican party founded
The GOP was formed in 1854, changing the face of american politics as the alternative to democrats -
Kansas-Nebraska act passed
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders,contrary to the Missouri Compromise -
Civil War in Kansas "Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas was the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Charles Sumner beating
Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a walking cane because of a speech, Sumner gave at congress -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
The supreme court ruled that slave owners had the right to take slaves into western territories, which resulted Dred Scott not being able to go to the west -
Lecompton constituion rejected
instrument framed in Lecompton, Kan., by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between republican Lincoln and democrat Douglas , speaking on slavery,etc -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia -
Election of 1860
The 1860 election set the stage for the CIvil war -
William Lloyd Garrison launches the Liberator
Garrison became a leader for the anti-slavery movement and his publication, the liberator, reached thousands of people worldwide
