The Abolitionist Movement

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  • The American Colonisation Society

    The American Colonisation Society was founded, they proposed the idea of freeing and sending the slaves back to Africa

  • The Missouri Compromise

    Missouri became a slave state allowed by the Missouri Compromise. This didn't sit right in the North and the anti slave movement.

  • Official Emerging of The Abolitionist Movement

    The Abolitionist Movement officially emerged as a radical and urgent effort to end slavery.

  • Amos Dresser

    Amos Dresser, a white student at Lane Theological Seminary was publicly whipped in Tennessee for possession of abolitionist literature.

  • Elijah Lovejoy

    Elijah Lovejoy, a newspaper editor and abolitionist, was shot and killed during a raid in Illinois when a pro-slavery mob attacked a warehouse with intent to stop abolitionist press movements.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, meaning all escaped enslaved people were to be returned to their owners and all American citizens were to cooperate.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed meaning that both pro- and anti- slavery groups could live in the Kansas Territory

  • Pro-Slavery Attack on Lawrence

    A pro-slavery group attacked Lawrence, a town found by abolitionists from Massachusetts. Abolitionists retaliated with a raid killing five pro-slavery settlers, organised by John Brown.

  • The Dred Scott Decision

    When Dred Sam Scott, an enslaved man, tried to sue for his freedom because he was taken by his master into free territory, the Supreme Court ruled that all territories were open to slavery

  • Death of John Brown

    Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia when they were caught by Marines and subsequently convicted of treason. Brown was then hanged.

  • African Americans Returning to Africa

    Nearly 12, 000 Africans Americans had returned to Africa

  • The Civil War

    The power struggle between the North and South peaked and the Civil War broke out.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation called for the freeing of those who were enslaved in areas of rebellion.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution which officially abolished slavery in all forms in the United States.