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William Lloyd Garrison Launches 'The Liberator'
Started the formation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society -
Nat Turner Leads A Slave Revolt in Virginia.
Rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
American Anti-Slavery Founded in Boston
Expanded to form the American Anti-Slavery Society -
Sarah Grimke's Letter on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Not only to free the enslaved but to end racial discrimination throughout the United States, made Sarah Grimke more radical than many of the reformers who advocated an end to slavery but who could not envision true social and political equality for the freedmen and women. -
Henry Highland's Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
He called for slaves open rebellion and the speech failed by one vote of being endorsed by the convention. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
First convention for womens rights. -
Harriet Tubman Escapes Slavery
Began and was apart of the Underground railroad leading slaves to freedom -
Fugitive Slave Act Passed
Added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture -
Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"
The significance of "Bleeding Kansas" is that this crisis really pushed the North and South apart and had a great deal to do with causing the Civil War. -
Frederick Douglass published the North Star
Developed into one of the most influential African American antislavery publications of the pre-Civil War era. -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech
It became, and continues to serve, as a classic expression of womens rights. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom Cabin
Helped lay the groundwork of the civil war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty -
Republican Party Founded
Ummm.... I mean.... We still use it today soooo..... -
Charles Sumner beating
The North-South rift had intensified, Republican ascendancy would bring on civil war. -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights but also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discourse -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
Did not allow Kansas to become a state at first. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
The South took it as an indication that there was to be no compromise. South Carolina seceded from the Union upon learning of his Lincolns lection.
