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Birth
She was born in Dorchester County, Maryland on the Edward Broas's plantation and was 10th of 11 children. -
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Harriet Tubman
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The Missouri Compromice
The Missour Compromice prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees north latitude. -
The American Anti-Slavery Society
The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Philadelphia. -
Childhood insident
When she was 13 years old, she was ordered to tie a fellow slave for a beating as a punishment for going to a local village store without permission. Tubman refused, so the master hurled a two- pound weight at her head and it struck her head leaving a perminate injury. She suffered from narcoleptic seizures all her life. -
Married a free black man
She married a free balck man named John Tubman. -
The Gag Rule was lifted
The House of Representatives lifted the "gag rule'. The gag rule was a rule that stated that anit-slavery abolitionist could not issue a petition for the abolishment of slavery. The gag rule was reapeled the gag rule made by a motion by John Quincy Adams. He told the House of Representatives that the law was a violation of Congress' First Amendment RIghts. -
The 1st woman to receive a medical degree.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree. -
She ran away to Philadelphia
Her master Anthony Thompson died and her brothers and sister were going to be auctioned off to a chain gang and so Tubman decided to run to Philadelphia 2 days later by herself. Neither her husband nor her sisters and brothers came with her. -
She arrives in Philadelphia and went to St. Catherines, Ontario
She arrrives in Philidelphia and then immediatly moved to St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada. She went back and forth to the slave states 15- 19 times and rescued around 300 slaves and 50 slaves indirectly with instuctions she provided as an escape route. She contined to rescue slaves for 7 years. -
First Woman's rights Convention
1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusettes. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves cannot become citizens. -
Brought her parents to safety
She bought a wagon and brought her elderly sickly parents to safety in the north. -
She enrolled in the Union army and worked as a spy, scout and nurse.
When the Civil War started to rise, she was a nurse, a scout and a spy for the Union Army. Her vast knowledge of the landscape in the Conferderate grounds and her small 5 ft body structure made her an excellent leader in conducting missions and convincing other slaves to abandon their owner and plantation and to escape and join the Union Army. Tubman was an excellent nurse and her experiance with working with medicine at a young age. She served in the Union Army for 3 years. -
The First Black Regiment
1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War -
She worked at a Freeman's Hospital
She worked at a freemans hospital as a nurse and also cared for the wounded soldiers in the Civil War. -
Colored National Labor Union
The 1st Black labor convention meets in the Colored National Labor Union in Washington D.C. -
1st Black Football Game
The first football game against two black colleges occured. The final score was Atlanta University- 10, Tuskegee- 0. -
Retired
Tubman retired and moved to her home in Auburn, NewYork and established her home as a care facility for the previousederly slaves and orphans. She also went and attended numerous womans rights events and african american rights events. -
Died
Harriet Tubman died in her home in Auburn, New York. -
Memorial for Harriet Tubman
The city of Auburn closed down for one day as a memorial tribute to her. During World War 2, there was a liberty ship that was christened the SS Harriet Tubman in her honor.
