Timeline and Terms

Events

African Methodist Episcopal Church formed
American Anti-Slavery Society founded
American Colonization Society founded
Amistad
Angelina Grimké’s petition at Boston State House
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Charles Sumner assaulted in the Senate
Colonization of African Americans
Compromise of 1850
Creole Affair
Crittenden Compromise
Denmark Vesey executed
Denmark Vesey’s insurrection plot
First female anti-slavery society founded
First meeting of Republican Party
Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery
Freedom’s Journal founded
Fugitive Slave Law
Gag Rule adopted
Gag Rule lifted
Harriet Tubman’s escape
Henry Highland Garnet’s call for slave rebellion
International slave trade piracy punishable by death
Isabella Van Wagener became Sojourner Truth
John Brown executed
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lecompton Constitution
Letter from a Fugitive Slave
Liberator published
Liberia founded
Lincoln elected president
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lincoln-Douglas debates published
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech
Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech
Missouri Compromise
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner executed
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Rev. Lovejoy murdered
Rufus King’s condemnation of slavery
Sack of Lawrence
Slave trade abolished in Washington, DC
Slavery abolished in British Empire
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
South Carolina’s secession
Suppression of slave trade
Territorial elections in Kansas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Violence in “Bleeding Kansas”
Wilmot Proviso introduced
World’s Anti-Slavery Convention

People

Absalom Jones
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Charles Lenox Remond
Charles Sumner
Daniel Webster
Denmark Vesey
Dred Scott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ellen Craft
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Henry Bibb
Henry Highland Garnet
Horace Greeley
James Forten
James K. Polk
James McCune Smith
James Monroe
John Brown
John C. Frémont
John J. Crittenden
Julia Ward Howe
Lucy Stone
Millard Fillmore
Olaudah Equiano
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Allen
Rufus King
Sarah Parker Remond
Sojourner Truth
Solomon Northup
Stephen A. Douglas
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Dwight Weld
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Wendell Phillips
William Lloyd Garrison
William Wells Brown
William Wilberforce
Zachary Taylor

Places

Bleeding Kansas
Harpers Ferry
Liberia
Mason-Dixon Line

Organizations

American Anti-Slavery Society
American Colonization Society
Free-Soil Party
Liberator
Liberty Party
Underground Railroad