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William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
The Liberator was an abolotionist newspaper that gained nationwide notoriety. -
Nat Turner Leads a Slave Revolt in Virginia
Nat Turner's slave rebellion was not long lasting, but it instilled fear into the South and many new legislations and punishments against slaves. -
American Anti-Slavery founded in Boston
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. -
Sarah Grimke's Letters on Equality of the Sexes and Conditions of Women
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. -
Henry Highland Garnet's ¨Address to the Slaves of the United States of America¨
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. -
Frederick Douglass Published the North Star
Frederick Douglass published the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, which became one of the most influential black antislavery papers. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
The Seneca Falls's Women's Rights Convention was the first women's rights convention and spurred other conventions soon after. -
Harriet Tubman Escapes from Slavery
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist, leading slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War. -
Fugitive Slave Act Passed
The Fugitive Slave Acts allowed the capture and return of runaway slaves within the United States -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech
"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 -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel that helped to stimulate the abolitionist cause. -
Republican Party Founded
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 and was a new political party that would oppose the spread of slavery to Western territories. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
The Kansas-Nebraska allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery based on popularity and was a significant event leading to the Civil War. -
Civil War in Kansas known as ¨Bleeding Kansas¨
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. -
Charles Sumner Beating
Representative Preston Brooks attacks Senate Charles Sumner with a cane as retaliation to Sumner's Speech ¨Crime Against Kansas.¨ -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott Decision
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. -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected by Congress
The Lecompton Constitution was one of four constitutions proposed for Kansas that protected slavery, however it was defeated. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to start a slave revolt by a white abolitionist, but this planned failed. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.
