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Garrison was an abolitionist and journalist famous for his newpaper that spread anti-slavery thoughs and ideas about women's rights
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A slave rebellion that took place in VA; resulted in about 55 deaths.
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A controlversial society that meet often with violence.
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An important step in Sarah and Angelina Grimke's fight for women's rights and freedom for slaves
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A speech calling for rebellion during the National Negro Convention of 1843
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Anti-slavery newspaper
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The first women's rights convention that gained a lot of attention and helped in the fight for the right to vote.
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After being in slavery for her whole life Harriet Tubman make a daring escape with her two brothers to saftey and start her new life as an abolitionist
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This required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law.
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A powerfull speech by Sojourner Truth that became popular during the civil war.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s
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Bleeding Kansas, was a number of violent political confrontations between anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery elements in Kansas.
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The new party was founded on Mar 20th 1854
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public
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This was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
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There were three separate votes on the Lecompton Constitution: December 21, 1857, January 4, 1858, and August 2, 1858. In the final vote, residents of Kansas Territory rejected the Lecompton Constitution.
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These were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincolnand Senator Stephen Douglas. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential election.
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This was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.