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"Our country is the world—our countrymen are mankind," is the motto of The Liberator. It was responsible for initially building Garrison’s reputation as an abolitionist.
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The rebellion was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history and led to a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the movement and assembly.
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The societies sponsored meetings, adopted resolutions, signed antislavery petitions to be sent to Congress, and did much more to pursue the cause of immediate abolition of slavery in the United States.
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Her writing was one of the first letters/women to speak against slavery and defended the right of women to speak in public in defense of morality.
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In this speech, Henry Highland Garnet openly called for slave insurrection and said that the slave should fight against the slave system/ encouraged slave revolts.
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The North Star became one of the most influential African American antislavery publications of the pre-Civil War era because symbolized the fact that escaping slaves used the North Star in the night sky to guide to freedom.
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During this first convention, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' was published and demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the route of the Underground Railroad.
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It required that all escaped slaves were to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law.
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The speech that Sojourner Truth delivered is now recognized as one of the most famous and significant abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history.
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The book strengthen the northern antislavery feeling by strongly address religiously based antislavery sentiments.
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The creation was originated from Wisconsin where former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.
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This act became part of the political sectionalism and railroad building to split two major political parties and help to create another, Republican, as well as worsen North-South relations.
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"Bleeding Kansas" was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving Free-Staters and "Border Ruffian" divisions in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
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Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner because a speech given by Sumner two days earlier about abolishing slavery in the United States. The event was strongly reacted by the public and the South and the North's division became more distinctive.
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The decision created extreme regional tensions, which grew for another four years before exploding into the Civil War, because the decision denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories.
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It meant to protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, Even though it was rejected, the constitution added to the fmore tension that lead U.S. to Civil War.
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The debates were the first debates between US senate candidates in American history. These series of debates offer a the fierce moral argument over slavery and represent a model for serious partisan engagement.
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The U.S. military at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. The raid fueled white Southern fears of slave rebellions and increased the tension between Northern and Southern states before the American Civil War.
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The election was resulted as the immediate outbreak of the American Civil War.This is also when Abraham Lincoln won the election.
