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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist from Massachusetts who was famous for publishing "The Liberator", an anti-slavery newspaper. He inspired future abolitionist speakers. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Virginia slave Nat Turner led sixty other slaves in a rebellion, killing at least fifty five people. The rebellion caused harsher slave codes and rebellions in the south. -
Free-soil Movement
The free-soil movement thought of slavery as a threat to republicanism and to a freeholder society instead of focusing on the rights of African Americans. Abolitionist Frederick Douglas supported the movement, however many other abolitionists condemned it, calling it "racist whitemanism" -
Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush caused a large migration from 1848-1850. Many settlers moved, hoping to get rich. All of the people settling in California caused a debate of whether or not to have slavery there. -
Seneca Falls COnvention
This conventin was a convenion to promote women's rights. Some important people at the convention were Elizabeth C. Stanton and Lucretia Mott. -
Whig Party Splits Over Slavery
The Whig party was a political party that supported congress over presidental power. In the 1850's, the northern Whigs did not want slavery while the southern Whigs did want slavery. The northern Whigs became known as the conscience Whigs. -
Know-Nothing Party
The Know-Nothing Party was a party in the early 1850's that was against foreign immigrants. They believed that "natives", people born in the United States, should get the jobs and immigrants shouldn't be allowed to move to the US. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Hariet Beecher Stowe's book was an anti-slavery book about a slave's life after he gets sold to different farmers in the south. It inspired an enormous amount of abolitionists. -
Southern Democrats Split
The Southern Democrats split over the issue of who decided to have slavery. One group became the Moderates; people who defended southern rights and demanded constitutional protection of slavery. The other group became the Fire Eaters; people who actively promoted succession. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860. He wanted to abolish slavery in the United States. He also wanted equal rights for free blacks.
