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William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
The Liberator was published with the motto "Our country is the world-- our countrymen are mankind." -
Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia
Believing himself chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery, Turner launches a bloody slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia. -
American Anti-Salvery founded in Boston
Through lecturing agents, petition drives, and a wide variety of printed materials, this society was founded to convince the public that the abolishment of slavery was the way to go. -
Sarah Grimke's Letters on Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
These letters were in response to mindsets such as Catherine Beecher's, who believed women should remain subordinate. -
Henry Highland Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
The major theme of this speech is that slaves need to rebel against the system of slavery. -
Frederick Douglass Published the North Star
Douglass developed The North Star into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
This was th first ever USA women's convention with almost 200 women in attendance. -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery
Harriet married a free slave who refused to run away with her so she followed the north star all the way to Philadelphia with her two brothers. -
Fugitive Slave Act Passed
As a part of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves. -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech
This speech was delievered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe's book changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. -
Republican Party Founded
Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party which resulted in the Republican Party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act Passed
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas"
It was a border debate between free-staters and pro-slavery citizens in Kansas. -
Charles Sumner Beating
Sumner, a member of the House of Representatives, entered the Senate chamber and was savagely beat into unconsciousness. -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott case, the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territorieswas affirmed through the ruking on the case. -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected by Congress
Northern Democrats, however, opposed the Lecompton Constitution after it was voted down by the majority of Kansas settlers. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Brown took hostages into an arsenal in Harpers Ferry in hopes that slaves would join his rebellion. -
Election of 1860
The presidential election between Lincoln and his toughest competitor, John C. Breckinridge, was the immediate cause to starting the American Civil War.
