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frederick douglass publishes the north star
this is one of the news[papers that went against slavery and made people think about how swag they were and moralities -
William Lloyd garrison launches the liberator
This newspaper spread abolishionist thoughts throughout the U.S and made it more known about what was happening to stop slavery -
Nat turner leads a slave revolt
one of the main reovlts that was violent, highest number of fatalities in a slave revolt since that time -
american anti-slavery in boston
american anti-slavery founded about 1833 and kept going, to stop slavery of course, american anti-slavery society. -
Sarah Grimke's letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women
she argues for slavery and women's rights and actually gets somewhere, however little that may be. -
Garnets address to the slaves
the speech
he addresses the people, and of course wants to give slaves freedom -
women's right convention at seneca falls, new york
this is , of course, a convention about women's rights, and about the only public thing on women's rights, also shows that womens' rights are starting to become as prevalent as slavery abolition -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
she would later set up the underground railroad, making it easier for slaves to escape. -
fugitive slave act
required that all slaves that had escaped were to be returned to their master, and caused the northerners to be wary -
Ain't I a woman speech by sojourner truth
talks to a wider audience than the newspaper, and speaks out against slavery and women's rights(in the good way). -
harriet beacher stowe's uncle tom's cabin was published
this proceeded to lay the groundwork fo rthe civil war -
republican party founded
of course this started the parties that are today -
kansas-nebraska act
allowed kansas and nebraska to decide for themselves whether they wanted to be a free or slave state -
bleeding kansas
kansas suffered the highest casualty rates, had a civil war to decide if it would be a free state or not. -
charles sumner beating
reps entered the senate and beat charles sumner -
The lecompton constitution rejected
this constitution was overwhelmingly rejected by congress -
Dred scott decision
blacks had no standing to sue the federal government, and they could not be citizens, free or not free. -
lincoln-douglas debates
debates, of course, between stephen douglas and abraham lincoln -
John brown's raid on harper's ferry
raid on a weapons depot, as slaves. slaves failed and were wiped out. -
election of 1860
this served as an immediate cause for the outbreak of the civil war.
