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Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia
Many innocent slaves were punished; state legislature passed laws that denied blacks their civil rights as well as their right for education. In result, new legislation prevented the assembly and education of slaves. -
William Lloyd Garrison launches The Liberator
The Liberator established Garrison as an abolitionist; The motto: ¨Our country is the world- our countrymen are mankind¨. -
American Anti-slavery founded in Boston
Garrison made people think about if the Constitution was a legal document since it did not guarantee freedom to all races. There was a split between the Whigs and the Free soil party. The whigs, including Garrison, where conservative than the other part of the group. They felt that not only should slavery be ended but the Constitutional should be considered void. -
Sarah Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women- 1838
Argued that women should be able to participate education, religion, work, and politics. It was really a response to Beecher's book narrowing two of her notions. One was that women were subordinate to men by God's decree. Her response to this is that God created sexes equal and men made women inferior. Second, Sarah looked to demolish ¨seperate spheres¨ of influence for both sexes. -
Henry highland garnet's ¨Address to the slaves of the United States of America¨
At the end of the speech he stresses resisting and says: ¨where is the blood ofour fathers¨. Rhetorically, he asks if they are not men. Garnet is encouraging slaves by saying that they need to rebel against their oppressors. -
Frederick Douglass published the North Star
His goals were to abolish all forms of slavery and improve the intellect of blacks; motto: ¨Right is of no sex- Truth is of no color- God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren¨. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
The Decleration of Sentiments and Resolutions is issued as a result which demamded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote. -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slaver
More than three hundred thousand slaves were impacted because she helped them escape. -
Fugitive slave act passed
Made it legal for local government to siege run-away slaves and return them to their slave masters as well as imposing punishment to anyone aiding the slaves. Resulted in many blacks being captured illegally and sold into slavery. -
Sojourner truth's ¨Ain't I a woman?¨ speech
Her speech touches on racial equality as well as the equality of both sexes. In the speech she is saying that even though she is a women she is not treated in the same respect as white women, and that chivalry does not apply to her. She lastly argues on the saying of how men have more rights since Christ was a man saying that a women made christ. ¨If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back¨. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Influenced the way people viewed slavery; the end of slavery was announced years later by Lincoln. -
Republican party founded
Civil war breaks out making the republican party victorious in the North. -
Civil war in Kansas known as ¨Bleeding Kansas¨
Since the it was left for the people to choose, pro-slavery and free-state flooded Kansas to influence the decision of if the state would be free or not. This causes the much violence over the fight for control. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
Allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's border and it repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Charles Sumner beating
Spent three and a half years recovering to when his cousin insulted him after Sumner made his crime against Kansas speech. This speech criticized efforts in the south to extend slavery into Kansas. -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Since Scott is property of his slave owner, he is not considered free because property cannot be taken away without due process of law. Ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any territory, making the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because it denied whites their Constitutional rights as well. -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
Controvery over whether Kansas would be admitted to the union as a slave state or as a free state. Lecompton Constitution would pretect the rights of slaveholders. This is really a seponse to the Topeka Constitution proposed by the free soilers. The Freeport Doctrine argued by Douglass is a result. -
Loncoln-Douglas Debates
After his defeat, Lincoln emerged as a potential nominee for president; the great debate proved to be one of the preliminaries of the Civil War. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Brown hoped that slaves would join the raid, but they were unsuccessful. Created to destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Really two elections: one in the North and one in the South. Lincoln became president. Democrats felt they would have won if they split the ticket.
