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His newspaper showed his abolitionist/ anti-slavery views to individuals worldwide.
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Nat Turner leads a slave revolt with 70 followers in Southampton County, Virginia in which about 60 whites were killed.
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An anti-slavery society founded with a plan to reach mass audiences through lecturing agents, petition drives, and a wide variety of printed materials.
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Sarah Grimke argues for women's rights.
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Henry Highland Garnet captures the attention of African American delegates with his speech at the Negro National Convention of 1843.
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The North Star was an anti-slavery newspaper published by African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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The Declaration of Sentiments and Greivances was signed and adopted by the assembly.
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Harriet Tubman found help from many abolitionists to assist her in traveling north.
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Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in which authorized local goverments to catch and return escaped slaves to their owners and impose penalties upon anyone who aided them.
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Sojourner Truth's argument stated that women deserve equal rights as men because women have the same capabilities as men.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe writes an anti-slavery book, selling 300,000 copies within three months and was widely read.
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A series of violent political confrontations involving free-staters and pro-slavery elements in Kansas between 1854-1861.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that mandates "popular sovereignty" that allowed the settlers of a territory to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.
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Whig members kept meeting to create a new party that opposes the spread of slavery into the western territories. This new party gave new and different ideas to change America.
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Charles Sumner was an anti-slavery Republican while Preston Brooks was a pro-slavery Democray, Brooks beat Sumner with a cane. Afterwards, both were considered heroes on their respective sides.
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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.
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A series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election. These issues discussed conflicts over slavery and states' rights, among other important things.
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The Lecompoton Constitution was made by pro-slavery advocates, and it contained clauses that protected slaveholding and it included a bill of rights that excluded free blacks. It was rejected by Congress.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid in Harper's Ferry against a federal armory. They were attempting to start an armed slave revolt to end the institution of slavery.
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln's presidency contributed a lt to our country.
