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John Brown
was an American abolitionist. Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained national attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856.
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Angelina Grimke
was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké are the only white Southern women who became abolitionists. -
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William Lloyd garrison
was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely-read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1865. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military strategist and a savvy leader: His Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for slavery’s abolition -
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. -
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Stephen Douglas
was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election, but he was defeated by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. -
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Fredrick Douglas
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. -
Missouri compromise
36°30′ line, north were free states, south wasn't -
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Mexican-American war
resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles -
compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories -
kansas Nebraska act
allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Dred Scott case
the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories -
raid on harpers ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia