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Garrison's Liberator is a abolitionist newspaper that was oublished in Massachusetts untiil slavery was abolished.
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Turner lead the largest slave revolt in history which led to the education of slaves and prohibition of slavery.
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Sarah became one the the earliest women to argue that women's role are equal to that of the men.
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During Garnet's "Address to the slaves of the United States of America," he call for open slave rebellion and urged slaves to claim their own freedom.
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Frederick Douglas published the "North Star" newspaper when he escaped slavery in an effort to promote freedom for all slaves.
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The Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls was the first women's right convention, it stressed the social, religious, and civil rights of women.
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Harriet Tubman escapes slavery which will pave the way for her to lead others to freedom, thus creating the Underground Railroad.
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Tht Fugitive Slave act was a federal law that allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without interference of the law and prevented anyone from aiding runaways.
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Senator Charles Sumner was severely beaten by a member of the House of Representatives resulting from earlier altercations during the addressing of Kansas as a slave or free state.
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In Truth's "Ain't I A Woman" Speech she expressed the importance of women rights.
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Uncle Tom' s Cabin is an anit-slavery novel that laid the "groundwork for the Civil War" according to Kaufman.
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The republican party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, it was established to oppose the spread of slavery.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska thus opening new lands for settlement and also creating the issue of whether theywould be slave states or not.
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"Bleeding Kansas" was a period of violence the settlement of the Kansas area that, in part, resulted from 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act in which the settlers of Kansas would decide whether the state would be free or slave.
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Dred Scott was suing for his freedom, but was told that "no blacks, free or enslaved, could claim U.S citizenship; this led to heightened North-South tensions and enraged abolitionists.
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Constitution proposed by pro-slavery southerners about Kansas settelment.
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The Lincoln - Douglas debates were a series of debates between the two politcians for the control of the Illinois, the main issue discused at the debates was slavery.
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Raid led by John Brown in an attempt to start a slave rebellion and end slavery.
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The election of 1860 set the stage for the upcoming civil war, Lincoln succeeded.