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William Lloyd Garrison published the first addition of the Liberator; it was one of the most influential papers in the argument against slavery.
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Nat Turner lead a slave revolt was one of the most sucessful slave revolts.
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It was an anti-slavery society founded with a plan to reach mass audiences through lecturing, petition drives, and a wide variety of printed materials.
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The letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman were inluential and defended the right of women to speak in public in defense of a moral cause.
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In his speach "Address to the Slaves of the Unites States of America" he calls the listeners to open rebellion; the speech failed by one vote of being endorsed by the convention.
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The North Star would soon become one of the most influential African American antislavery publications of the pre-Civil War era.
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The woman’s rights convention was significant becuase it was the first ever held in the United States, and had almost 200 women in attendance.
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This is an important event because she later became a significant "conductor" on the Ungerground Railroad.
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This act allowed southerners to come and recapture slaves from the north which upset meny people in the north.
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Sojourner Truth delivered her speach at a woman's rights convention and made a huge impact on the audence; it was also mentioned in an issue of the New-York Daily Tribune.
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Harriet's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, had a great impact on people because it showed what the lives of slaves were like to many people who had ever seen slavery firsthand.
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This is significant because this party helped Lincoln gain the presidency, and is still operating today.
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In Kanas they used the principle of popular sovereignty wich decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state; this meant that people both for and agianst slavery flooded the state to try and ilfluence the vote.
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This act was significant because it underminded the Missuri Compromise by letting the territories choose whether or not they wanted to have slavery.
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This event was the first time in American history that there was a fight between two officials when Preston Brooks, who was in the House of Representatives, beat Charels Sumner, a member of the Senate, unconsciousness over the issue of slavery. BOth men became heros for their regions.
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The Supreme Court's ruling not only nullified the Missouri Compromise, but also the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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The lecompton Constitution contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it was rejected by congress and later rejed by Kansas.
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These debates allowed Lincoln to get out amoung the people and become more well known because of Douglas's stature, and it was also part of a larger campaign, that were designed to achieve certain immediate political objectives.
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This event is important because an aboiltionist was trying to start a slave rebellion, and this shows that white people were willing to try drastic things to help the slaves.
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The Election of 1860 was a tight race between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. These debates gave voice to the issues and the concerns that divided the nation.
