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in the first 10 years 1,500,000 people pledged to stop drinking
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Founded the liberator, an abolishionist newspaper
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The first public school was opened in Massachusetts.
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Began to reform prisons and asylums
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An escaped slave ho went to New York, and wrote about his experience as a slave
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Thoreau refused to pay a taxed raised by the Mexican war
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Liberia gains independence
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Local New York women had a convention about womens rights