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The Liberator was an abolotionist newspaper that gained nationwide notoriety.
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Nat Turner's slave rebellion was not long lasting, but it instilled fear into the South and many new legislations and punishments against slaves.
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The Anti-Slavery Society was an organization that made it's purpose to carry the abolitionist message to audiences around that United States, as well as make petitions, journals, and propoganda.
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Grimke was one of the first women to speak for the quality of women, and in Letters on Equality of the Sexes and Conditions of Women she defended a women's right to speak in public in defense of a moral cause.
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Garnet gave this speech at the National Negro Convention of 1843 and in it he called for open rebellion, which failed to be endorsed by the convention by one vote.
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Frederick Douglass published the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, which became one of the most influential black antislavery papers.
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The Seneca Falls's Women's Rights Convention was the first women's rights convention and spurred other conventions soon after.
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Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist, leading slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.
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The Fugitive Slave Acts allowed the capture and return of runaway slaves within the United States
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"Ain't I a Woman?" given by Soujourner Truth, an aboloitionist and women's rights supporter, is considered one of the the most famous abolitionist and women's right speeches in American history
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel that helped to stimulate the abolitionist cause.
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The Republican Party was founded in 1854 and was a new political party that would oppose the spread of slavery to Western territories.
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The Kansas-Nebraska allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery based on popularity and was a significant event leading to the Civil War.
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Bleeding Kansas was a civil war over the expansion of slavery and further drove the political question on whether slavery should be legal or not.
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Representative Preston Brooks attacks Senate Charles Sumner with a cane as retaliation to Sumner's Speech ¨Crime Against Kansas.¨
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The Dred Scott decision affirmed the right of slave owners to be allowed to take their slaves to the West under the basis the Scott was not considered a peron under the U.S. constitution.
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The Lecompton Constitution was one of four constitutions proposed for Kansas that protected slavery, however it was defeated.
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The Lincoln-Dougles Debates were a series of debates for governorship of Illinous, however after Lincoln altered all the debates and published a book that led to his nomination as President of the USA.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to start a slave revolt by a white abolitionist, but this planned failed.
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Election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.
