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The liberator is published
The liberator is published
The Liberator was Garrison's most prominent abolitionist activity, he had been involved in the fight to end slavery for years prior to its publication.THE LIBERATOR, reached thousands of individuals worldwide.Garrison's words, "I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD," -
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Events leading to Civil War
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion
A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children on the night of August 21. Turner and 16 of his conspirators were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. Blacks were randomly killed all over Southhampton County; many were beheaded and their heads left along the roads to warn others. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to elminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48). It was blocked in the southern-dominated Senate. It caused a huge controversy over slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws.The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. The book established Stowe’s reputation as a woman of letters. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding KansasBloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Kansas Nebraska act
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.This 1854 bill is to organize western territories became part of the political whirlwind of sectionalism and railroad building. -
Brook-Sumner Event
Brook-Sumner EventCharles Sumner was one of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in all of Congress. after perhaps the most shocking few minutes in the history of Congress, Brooks turned and walked calmly out of the chamber, leaving Sumner bloodied and unconscious.Charles Sumner suffered for the rest of his life from intense headaches and what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder. -
'Bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settlement of the Kansas Territory. “Bleeding Kansas” was first fixed on that strife-ridden territory by antislavery publicists. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence. the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincol-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.Lincoln and Douglas agreed to debate in seven of the nine Illinois Congressional Districts; the seven where Douglas had not already spoken.Although Lincoln lost the election. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's Raid on Harper's FerryDescending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country. Brown was quickly placed on trial and charged with treason against the state of Virginia, murder, and slave insurrection. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.The Republicans met in Chicago that May and recognized that the Democrat's turmoil actually gave them a chance to take the election. There were plenty of potential candidates, but in the end Abraham Lincoln had emerged as the best choice. -
Secession of Southern States
Secession of Southern States
South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to SECEDE from the Union.On December 20, 1860, by a vote of 169-0, the South Carolina legislature enacted an "ordinance" that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States". South Carolina's action resulted in conventions in other southern states. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting plages, secret routes, passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada. By one estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South between 1810 and 1850.. Established in the early 1800s and aided by people involved in the Abolitionist Movement, the underground railroad helped thousands of slaves escape bondage.
