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Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards.
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It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history
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Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings.
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Sarah Grimké responded to Catharine Beecher's defense of the subordinate role of women
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The document elicited more discussion than any other paper that was ever brought before that, or any other deliberative body of colored persons
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It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South
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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers
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Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War"
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By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
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Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford
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It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War
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Was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas
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Assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry
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Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell
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This split the Democratic ticket in half, giving the Republicans, who nominated Abraham Lincoln, a huge advantage
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The convention then adjourned to Charleston to draft an ordinance of secession
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War
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The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war
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Gettysburg Address, world-famous speech delivered by Pres. Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville
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Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia
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The 1864 election was the first time since 1812 that a presidential election took place during a war
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President Abraham Lincoln signs a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army
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The term “carpetbaggers” refers to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction
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Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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Johnson assumed the presidency as he was vice president of the United States at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom
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Was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War
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Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union
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White Democratic Southerners saw themselves as redeeming the South by regaining power
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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was an agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions
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Congress overrides veto to enact civil rights bill, April 9, 1866. A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act
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A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson
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Outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War
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The United States presidential election of 1868 was the 21st quadrennial presidential election
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14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves
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U.S. Senate continues to hear impeachment charges against President Andrew Johnson. The trial, convened by the Senate on March 5, focused on issues surrounding Johnson's post-Civil War Reconstruction policy
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Grant was elected as a Republican in 1868 and after the election he generally sided with the Radicals on Reconstruction policies and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law
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First United States Supreme Court interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment which had recently been enacted
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United States Supreme Court decision in United States constitutional law, one of the earliest to deal with the application of the Bill of Rights
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It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era
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African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements
