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John Brown
American abolitionist who wanted to use armed forces to overthrow slavery. He wanted to raid an arsenal at Harpers Ferry and give slaves the weapons -
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William Lloyd Garrison
American abolitionist who started an abolitionist paper called "The Liberator." He helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society. -
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Angelina Grimke
American abolitionist and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimke were the only white Southern women to become abolitionists -
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Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the US that abolished slavery. Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth because he thought he was a tyrant. -
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Harriet Beecher-Stowe
American abolitionist and author best known for her novel "Under Tom's Cabin" which shows the harsh conditions for enslaved African-Americans. -
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Stephen Douglas
American politician from Illinois that led the Democratic party. He supported the cause of popular sovereignty in relation to slavery in territories before the American Civil War -
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Fredrick Douglass
Abolitionist that escaped from slavery and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement -
Missouri Compromise
Passed Missouri as a slave state and added Maine as a free state to keep balance between free and slave states. -
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Mexican-American War
War between US and Mexico. Mexican government was encouraging border raids and warned that attempt at annexation would cause war, but annexation occurred anyway. Texas joined America but Mexico didn't recognize its independence. -
Compromise of 1850
Package of 5 bills passed by US congress that caused a political confrontation between slave and free states -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves weather or not to have slavery in their borders -
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Dred Scott Case
Decade long fight for freedom by a slave named Dred Scott. US Supreme Court decided he was not entitled to his freedom. -
Raid on Herpers Ferry
Abolitionist, John Brown, wanted to give slaves weapons to arm themselves and fight for their freedom by taking over a US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA