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William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator
The Liberator was significant because Garrison was an abolitionist and The Liberator became known as an anti-slavery document and Garrison began blasting the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. -
Nat Turner Slave Revolt
This revolt was where slave rebels killed from 55 to 61 people -
American Anti-Slavery Society Begins
The American Anti-Slavery Society movement was a movement to end slavery that was started by William Garrison -
Sarah Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women published
Sarah Grimké responded to Catharine Beecher's defense of the subordinate role of women. First was the notion that women were subordinate to men by God's decree. -
Henry Highland Garnet’s “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
In his address, Henry Highland argued that black people cannot rely on white Americans to realize the wrongs of this institution and make a change. He argues that slaves have "a moral obligation to God" to lift themselves from ignorance. -
women's rights convention in seneca falls
This was the first convention held, and out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote -
Harriett Tubman escapes slavery
After talk of the underground railroad, hearing about how her siblings being sold, and her family starting to pass away, Harriet Tubman escaped from her slave owner -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of attempted resolutions to try and end confrontations and resolve problems between the North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was apart of the Compromise of 1850, and this act was enforced to make people attempt to capture runaway slaves. -
Sojourner Truth Delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech
Sojourner Truth's speech was delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. This speech was transcribed in 1851 and was apart of the issue of the "Anti-Slavery Bulge". -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made aiding or assisting runaway slaves a crime in free states. Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was first published in 1852, is thus a deliberate and carefully written anti-slavery argument. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations over numerous years where people were fighting over whether Kansas should become a slave state or not. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. -
Republican Party Founded
With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. -
Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy -
Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott vs. Stanford case was the fact that Dred Scott was suing for him and his family's freedom from their slave owner. After getting denied by judge rule due to the fact that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in federal court, Scott appealed the verdict and his case got reviewed and he came out on top. -
Lecompton Constitution
Lecompton Constitution, instrument framed in Lecompton, Kansas, by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War. -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
There were seven debates between the two Senate candidates Stephen A. Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln. Most of the debate topics concerned slavery and what each candidate thought of the occurring events involving slavery. At the end of the debates, Lincoln became a nationwide known figure in politics. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid was a slave revolt on a federal armory led by John Brown, an abolitionist and a small group of supporters to try and stop the institution of slavery -
Democratic Party Splits into Northern and Southern Halves
In 1860, the Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern halves on the issue of slavery and this sparks the beginning of a nation divided. Most Northerners agreed with current president Abraham Lincoln and the fact that slavery should not expand. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
After it was made official, in 1860, South Carolina became the first state to officially secede from the United States -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
In the election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. -
Firing on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
Confederate States of America Founded
In February 1861, the six states that seceded met in Alabama to form a unified government known as the Confederate States of America. -
Battle of Antietam
Union Claims Victory. Military historians consider the Battle of Antietam a stalemate. Even so, the Union claimed victory. And keeping Confederates in their southern box enabled President Lincoln to finally release his Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. -
Congress Passes 13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865 -
Lincoln Assassination
In April of 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a confederate sympathizer, in Ford's theater.
