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William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
helped African Americans fight for their freedom -
Nat Turner leads a slave revolt
virginia enacted new slave codes because of this -
Period: to
American Anti- Slavery founded in Boston
main activist arm of the abolition movement -
Sara Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Fought for the the rights of women and men and women were equal -
Fredrick Douglas published the North Star
Tries to convince and explain to the northern states that slavery is wrong -
Women's Right's Convention at Seneca Falls
marked the beginning of the womens sufferage movement -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery
She became the conductor of the Underground Railroad and lead many slaves to freedom -
Fugitive Slave act passed
deepened the divisions in the country over the issue of slavery -
Sojourner Truth's "Aint I a Woman" speech
served as a classic experssion of womens rights -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's cabin
show the slaverys effect on familes -
republican party founded
This is one of the political parties we still use today -
kansas- nebraska act passed
overturned the missouri compromise use boundary between slave and free states -
Period: to
Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas
pushed the north and south apart -
Charles Sumner beating
This shows what southerners thought of abolitionists and what they'd do to them -
supreme court's dread scott decision
noted that blacks did not have federal citizenship -
Lecompton Constitution by congress
allowed kansas to be a slave state -
Lincoln- Douglas debates
was the first debate between senate canidates in American history -
John Brown's raid on Harpe's Ferry
attempt to start a slave revolt and destroy slavery -
Election of 1860
served s an immediate reason for the outbreak of the civil war -
Henry Highland Garnets "Address to the Slaves of the United Sates of America
wanted the slaves to revolt
