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He became the leader of the anti-slavery movement, as well as The Liberator , and he persuaded some people to become abolitionists.
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Nat was an African- American slave that lead a slave rebllion of slaves and free blacks, which resulted in 60 white deaths.
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It was an abolitionist society founded by Garrison and Tappen that had former slaves speak at meetings.
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She was one of the first women to speak agaisnt slavery and for the equality of women.
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He called for an open rebellion, however the speech failed by one vote.
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It was the mot influential anti-slavery paper published during the antebellum era, and it fought for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups.
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The Seneca Falls convention was the first women's rights convention that spanned over two days.
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After she escaped, she became the ¨Moses of her people¨ because she lead hundreds of slaves to freedom along the underground railroad.
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It was part of a compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soils.
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It was significant because it was preseneted to the women's convention in Ohio against slavery and women rights.
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It was an anti-slavery novel that helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the U.S.
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It allowed people in Nebraska and Kansas to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery wihtin their borders, and it served to repeal the Missouri Compromise.
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It was a series of violent political confontations between anti-slavery and pro-slavery that created the Knasas-Nebraska act.
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Brooks' act of beating Charles created a polarizing national reaction that is frequently cited as a major factor in the rising tensions leading up to the American Civil War and was applauded by many southerners.
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It was a landmark 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 couldn't sue in the federal court.
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Kansas voters rejected the Lecompton proposal and in Washington, the Lecompton constitution was defeated by the federal House of Representatives. However, the debate over the proposed constitution had ripped apart the Democratic party and Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
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They were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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It was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to intiate an armed slave revolt .
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It served as an immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
