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Underground Railroad
A system of people trying to help slaves escape and move North. -
The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator to speak for women and slaves. -
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Pre-Civil War Slavery
Slavery in the South, leading up to the Civil War. -
Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner, a slave and a pastor, led a rebellion and killed 57 whites. -
Fredrick Douglass founds The North Star
The free slave starts an abolitionist newspaper. -
Harriet Tubman escapes
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and came back 15 times to save more slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
The new territories get to choose if they are slave states or not, California is free, Texas is slave, and the Fugitive Slave Act is tightened. -
Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a story highlighting the cruelty of slavery. Caused a lot of upset in the North. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott tried to sue for freedom. The Supreme Court said that blacks weren't citizens and shouldn't be able to sue in the first place. -
John Brown Leads Attacks
John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who led other abolitionists and slaves. They killed slave owning families. -
Lincoln is elected
And Abolitionist northerner gets elected as president. This made the south angery.
