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Slavery was mostly located in the South. African Americans were enslaved on farms, plantations, in cities and towns, inside homes, out in fields, and in industry and transportation.
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A rebellion of black slaves that took place in Virginia, led by Nat Turner. Rebels killed at least 55 people, and at least 51 of them were white
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A gag rule is a rule that limits the discussion of a particular topic. Congress imposed this rule because the talk about slavery was “distracting” from other political matters. This lasted for about 8 years.
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Douglass was a slave who escaped in 1838, he escaped by posing as a sailor. Douglass eventually became a huge figure in the abolitionism movement. He became a famous author and public speaker for anti slavery.
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Southern politicians wanted California and Texas to be added to the Union. One of the main reasons of this was to expand the U.S. for more land so more slaves could work. Texas was added in 1845, and California was added in 1850. Congress debated whether to make California a free state or a slave state.
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This was a proposal to Congress to ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American war. It was unsuccessful and not passed because of the Southern and Northern tie in the House of Representatives.
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Tubman was a slave, and she escaped in 1849 using the Underground Railroad. Eventually, she would have guided more than 300 others slaves, including her family, to freedom.
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Abolitionism was a movement to end slavery. By the late 1850s there were hundreds of thousands of abolitionist.
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Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery. He focused on the practical goal of preventing the creation of new slave states and blocking the expansion of slavery into new Western territories. He is the leader that is most associated with the end of slavery in the U.S.
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Sen. Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions and attempted to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between the North and the South. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and slave trade in Washington, D.C. was destroyed.
