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Labor Unions began forming in America in the 19th century.
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The Temperance Movement started in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Horace Mann of Massacuhsetts and Henry Barnard of Connecticut begin to make a widespread appeal for the value of public education.
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The issue of slavery came up again when the US gained a new territory from Mexico because the Government wasn't sure if they were going to make the territory a free state or a slave state.
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The Secena Falls Convention was about giving the rights that men had to women as well.
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The Second Fugitive Slave Law says that anyone caught helping a runaway slave will be imprisoned for six months and pay a fine of $1,000, which was worth a lot more back then.
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The main laws of the compromise of 1850 were that California entered the Union as a free state and slave trade ended in Washington D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed.
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In 1854, President Peirce vetoed Dorothea Dix's bill which would make the government build asylums for the mentally ill as well as the deaf and blind.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, split the Nebraska territory into two states, Kansas and Nebraska, and let Nebraska decide wether it would be a free state or a slave state by popular sovereignty.
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In the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Lincoln didn't want slavery to expand into any new states, and Douglas believed that popular sovereignty should decide wether states became free or slave states.
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