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William Lloyd Garrison launched the Liberator
The Liberator was an abolisonists newspaper. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
The New England Anti-Slavery Society was formed by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator.The Liberator was also its official publication. -
The Nat Turner rebellion
Turner and a group of followers killed about sixty white men, women, and children, they were captured and killed. -
Sarah Grimke Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
She argued against the idea that God had created women as inferior and instead insisted that women had the same rights and as men; including in areas of education, religion, work and politics. -
Frederick Douglass first published the North Star
The North Star was to promote freedom for all slaves, he wrote it after he escaped from slavery.. -
Seneca Falls Womens Rights Convention
The first Womens Rights Convention where social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women was dicussed. -
Harriet Tubman Escaped Slavery
Harriet had heard rumors that her and her brothers were going to be sold so they decided to go North. Later on she became a conducter of the Under Ground Railroad -
Fugitive slave law
Came from the Compromise of 1850 and federal commissioners were given authority to issue warrants,and force citizens to help catch runaway slaves. -
Sojourner Truth Gives her 'Ain't I a Woman Speech"
The speech was made to be pro feminist, she couldn't read or write but had a beutiful voice. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's cabin showed how slavery effected families, and to help people empathize with slaves through the characters. -
Republican Party formed
In Wisconsin, members of the Whig Party met to create a new party to oppose the spread of slavery in western territories, republicans. They became very popular in the North. -
Civil War in Kansas aka Bleeding Kansas
A border of violent political confrontation involving abolishionists and those pro-slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created Kansas and Nebraska as states, states used popular sovereignty to decide if they would be slave of free states. -
Charles Sumner beating
Preston Brooks, a memeber of the House of Representatives,beats Charles Sumner, a member of the senate, with a cane. Sumner was attacked because of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech. -
Dred Scott case
This case declared that all blacks -could never become citizens of the USA and also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, making slavery legal in the all of Americas territories. -
Lecompton Constitution
Drafted by pro-slavery factions in Congrees but was one of four that were rejected. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The debate was in Ottawa, Illinois, and was the first of nine. -
John Brown's raid
John Brown, an abolitionist, and his supporters captured prominent citizens and the federal armory and arsenal; hoping that the local slaves would join the raid and they would be free but it didn't work. -
The Election of 1860
19th quadrennial presidential election and it was one of the things that led to the Civil war.
