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Abolitionist newspaper which increases support for abolition of slavery and women's rights
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Garnet encourages rebellion in the black population of the US at the National Negro Convention, his speech failing to be endorsed by one vote.
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Feminist convention leading to the drafting of Declaration of Sentiments.
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery, going on to carry out thirteen missions to rescue slaves (esp. family and friends) through the Underground Railroad.
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A series of agreements arranged by Henry Clay which attempted to decrease hostility between free and slave states. Made California a free state.
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Part of the 1850 compromise, required captured slaves to be returned to their masters, including in free states.
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Speech which demanded equal rights for women and blacks
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Uncle Tom's Cabin shows the realities of slavery and humanizes the struggle against slavery
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A series of violent civil confrontations resulting from the establishment of Kansas over the legality of slavery.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Caused vehement debates over legality of slavery, resulting in "Bleeding Kansas"
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A faction of Republican Party politicians who rallied for the eradication of slavery without compromise.
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Declared that blacks could not be citizens and therefore could not have power in federal courts.
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Financial panic caused by over-expansion (i.e. gold rush) of US's domestic economy
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A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas prior to the election for Illinois senator, focusing mainly on slavery.
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Attempt by John Brown to begin a slave revolt by taking over a U.S. Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
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The Democratic party faces a schism on the issue of expanding slavery, splitting into the Northern and Southern Democratic Parties.
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South Carolina is the first to secede from the union, beginning the American Civil War.
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The confederacy is formed from slave states in opposition to northern efforts to abolish slavery. One of the combatants of the Civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected President and leads america through the civil war, abolishes slavery, improves economy, etc.
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The attack on Fort Sumter (South Carolina) which began the Civil War and lead to SC's secession
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Civil war battle which resulted in the single bloodiest day in US history.
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Writings showing relationship between Feminism and Christianity in the 1800s
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A declaration issue by Abraham Lincoln which classified all enslaved people in the South as legally free, so that they were encouraged to escape to the North.
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Most important civil war battle - Lee loses to union, retreats into virginia and pennsylvania
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A speech delivered by Lincoln following the Union victory, at the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg.
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US Grant becomes a Commanding General of the US Army and goes on to procure victory for the north in the civil war.
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A Union military campaign which involved the destruction of Confederate military and industrial fixtures from Atlanta to Savannah.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president for a second term.
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Lincoln is assassinated by confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
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Constitutional Amendment which outlawed slavery in the US.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War.
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Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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The KKK is formed by Confederate veterans after northern victory in the Civil War.
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Established to aid former slaves and poor white citizens in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Congress overrides veto by Andrew Johnson and enacts the civil rights act of 1866, declaring all citizens equally protected by US law.
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Northerners move South after the Civil War in hopes of making an economic profit from Southern land.
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Legal document which outlined the conditions under which the South would be readmitted to the Union.
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Grants citizenship to anyone "born or naturalized in the United States," specifically freed slaves.
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Andrew Johnson is impeached by congress, mainly because of his removal of secretary of war Edwin Stanton in favor of US Grant.
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Gives voting rights to all citizens (males) regardless of race.
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U.S. Grant elected president after serving during the civil war
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A movement in which Southern Democrats believed themselves to be "redeeming" the South by gaining political power.
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Established the 14th amendment to apply to privileges granted by US citizenship, not to state citizenship.
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Supreme Court decision declaring the 1st and 2nd amendment rights apply only to the Federal government, not necessarily to the states.
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An informal deal which settled the 1876 presidential election and resulted in the U.S. pulling its troops out of the South, ending Reconstruction.
