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William Lloyd Garrison launches the Liberator
The Liberator was a weekly abolitionist newspaper that expressed it's demand for the emancipation of slaves. -
Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia
Nat Turner leads a bloody slave revolt with 75 other slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, which turned out to be the biggest slave revolt in U.S. History. -
American Anti-Slavery founded in Boston
This was a abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. -
Sarah Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Sarah Grimke's was the first women abolistionist to defend the rights of women with her letters. -
Henry Highland Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
At the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, NY, Henry Highland called for open slavery rebellion in the crowd, which encouraged slaves to rebel against their owners. -
Frederick Douglass published the North Star
Douglass established this abolitionist newspaper after his escape from slavery and turned out to be the most influential black antislavery newspaper in the antebellum era. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
First ever women's rights convention in the United States. -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery
Harriet Tubman traveled on the Underground Railroad to escape to Philadelphia and dedicated her life helping slaves escape. -
Fugitive Slave Act passed
This was a revision to the original Act in 1793, that reinforced the Act and forced citizens to help with the capture of runaway slaves and denied slaves the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process -
Sojourner's Truth's "Ain't I a Women?" speech
Anti-slavery and women's rights activist, Truth delivers speech that brings great attention to major issues. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book showed readers inside the brutal truth of slavery in the south, which led to a stronger abolitionist movement in the North and was one of the underlying factors of the Civil War. -
Republican Party founded
Former Whig party members met in Wisconsin to establish this new party to oppose the spread of slavery into Western territories. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act repealed the Missoursi Compromise of 1820 and let Kansas and Nebraska chose whether they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. -
Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas was during the settling of the Kansas territory and where pro-slavery and free-state settlers fought for control of the state. -
Charles Sumner beating
Prestons Brooks beat Sumner with a cane because he was mocking the South, which led to Brooks dismissing himself from the House of Representatives only to be reelected again. -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
The Supreme Court ruled that that slave owners had the right to take their slaves into western territories, which resulted in Dred Scott not being free and unable to go to the West. -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
This was the second constitution written for Kansas by proslavery supports and permitted slavery, excluded free black from living in Kansas, and only allowed male citizens of American to vote. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
These were debates between Lincoln and Douglas when they were both running for Illinois senate and even though Lincoln lost, he gained national prominence which led to his presiency. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Abolitionsist John Brown, along with a group of supporters, captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal in Harpers Ferry with hope that slaves would help out, but it resulted in them being captured and hung. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln defeatead Stephen Douglas in the presidential election.
