Unit 5 (1844-1847)

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  • William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator

    William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator

    helped African Americans fight for their freedom
  • Nat Turner leads a slave revolt

    Nat Turner leads a slave revolt

    virginia enacted new slave codes because of this
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    American Anti- Slavery founded in Boston

    main activist arm of the abolition movement
  • Sara Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women

    Sara Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women

    Fought for the the rights of women and men and women were equal
  • Fredrick Douglas published the North Star

    Fredrick Douglas published the North Star

    Tries to convince and explain to the northern states that slavery is wrong
  • Women's Right's Convention at Seneca Falls

    Women's Right's Convention at Seneca Falls

    marked the beginning of the womens sufferage movement
  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery

    Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery

    She became the conductor of the Underground Railroad and lead many slaves to freedom
  • Fugitive Slave act passed

    Fugitive Slave act passed

    deepened the divisions in the country over the issue of slavery
  • Sojourner Truth's "Aint I a Woman" speech

    Sojourner Truth's "Aint I a Woman" speech

    served as a classic experssion of womens rights
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's cabin

    show the slaverys effect on familes
  • republican party founded

    republican party founded

    This is one of the political parties we still use today
  • kansas- nebraska act passed

    kansas- nebraska act passed

    overturned the missouri compromise use boundary between slave and free states
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    Civil War in Kansas known as "Bleeding Kansas

    pushed the north and south apart
  • Charles Sumner beating

    Charles Sumner beating

    This shows what southerners thought of abolitionists and what they'd do to them
  • supreme court's dread scott decision

    supreme court's dread scott decision

    noted that blacks did not have federal citizenship
  • Lecompton Constitution by congress

    Lecompton Constitution by congress

    allowed kansas to be a slave state
  • Lincoln- Douglas debates

    Lincoln- Douglas debates

    was the first debate between senate canidates in American history
  • John Brown's raid on Harpe's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harpe's Ferry

    attempt to start a slave revolt and destroy slavery
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    served s an immediate reason for the outbreak of the civil war
  • Henry Highland Garnets "Address to the Slaves of the United Sates of America

    Henry Highland Garnets "Address to the Slaves of the United Sates of America

    wanted the slaves to revolt