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Nat Turner leads slave rebellion that took place in Southhampton county , which turned out to be the largest slave revolt in the united states
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Anti-slavery society in boston founded in 1831
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Grimke was the first to defend the rights of women to speak publlicly
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At the national negro convention in NEW york, henry highland called for an open slavery rebellion in the crowd, which encouraged slaves to rebel against their owners
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he wanted to promote freedom for all slave and itt got its name because slaves escaping at night followed the North Star in the sky to freedom.
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first ever women's right convention in United States
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Harriet Tubman traveled the underground railraod to escape to Philadelphia .
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.
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Anti-slavery and women's rights activist Truth delivers speech that brings great attention to major issues
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Novel helped lay the bridge-work for civil rights
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The GOP was formed in 1854, changing the face of american politics as the alternative to democrats
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders,contrary to the Missouri Compromise
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Bleeding Kansas was the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
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Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a walking cane because of a speech, Sumner gave at congress
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The supreme court ruled that slave owners had the right to take slaves into western territories, which resulted Dred Scott not being able to go to the west
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instrument framed in Lecompton, Kan., by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks
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A series of debates between republican Lincoln and democrat Douglas , speaking on slavery,etc
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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The 1860 election set the stage for the CIvil war
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Garrison became a leader for the anti-slavery movement and his publication, the liberator, reached thousands of people worldwide
