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proposed the idea of freeing slaves and sending them back to Africa
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allowed Missouri to become a slave state
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organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States
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a white student at Lane Theological Seminary named Amos Dresser was publicly whipped in Nashville
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a pro-slavery mob attacked a warehouse in Alton, Illinois, in an attempt to destroy abolitionist press materials
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Congress passed the controversial Fugitive Slave Act, which required all escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners and American citizens to cooperate with the captures
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a pro-slavery group attacked the town of Lawrence, which was founded by abolitionists from Massachusetts
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Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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nearly 12,000 African Americans had returned to Africa
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North and the South reached its peak, the Civil War broke out
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calling for the freeing of enslaved people in areas of the rebellion
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the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished all forms of slavery in the United States