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Antebellum Period
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The Liberator
The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper that inspired many abolitionists, including Frederick Douglas, declared it was also a women's rights newspaper. The newspaper advocated for equal rights for all people, an idea that wasn't very popular in this time period. -
Van Buren Announces Stance on Slavery
Van Buren announced that he was against the annexation if Texas because he opposed the spread of slavery and possibilities of a war with Mexico. -
Manifest Destiny
The term "Manifest Destiny" was first used by John O'Sullivan. It was the idea that American settlers were destined to take over all of North America. This idea justified slavery and the war with Mexico because it declared that white Americans were chosen by God to spread their ideas and people. -
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a political party in the state of New York that opposed slavery. They argued that free men on free soil was a better economic system and tried to prevent slavery from expanding farther west. -
New York Married Women's Property Law
The Married Women's Property Law was a series of laws that allowed married women to have control over thier own property, wages, and children. This was very important for the women's rights movenments and inspired other states to pass laws that gave women more rights. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It was held to discuss the the rights and social places of women in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass, leaders of the women's rights and abolitionist movements attended. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin which became a best selling book and created a way for more people to undestand and sympathize with the hard life that slaves had to endure. It inspired many Northerners to join the abolitionist movement. -
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Know-Nothing Party
The Know-Nothing Party was a political party that worried that immigrants with Catholic views would overpower the religious views already held in the U.S. They tried to prevent German and Irish immigrants from coming to the U.S. -
Dred Scott Case Lost
Dred Scott was a slave who tried to sue for his family's freedom against the Supreme Court and lost. He was denied because no person of African decent could be a citizen of the United States. The decision about his case increased the tensions between the North and South and inspired abolitionists. -
Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was a Northern Republican political leader who's goal was to unify the United States again. News of his election led South Carolina and many other sounthern states to secede from the U.S. and create the Confederate States of America.
