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A weekly anti-slavery newpaper launched in Boston, Massachusetts by abolishionist Wiilliam Lloyd Garrison.
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Supported immediat abolition of slavery and viewed slavery as immoral and non-Christian. Sponsored speakers who traveled across New England giving lectures.
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The largest slave revolt in U.S. history and led to a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the movement, assembly, and education of slaves.
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The first in-depth philosophical discussions on women's rights by an American woman.
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In his radical speech, Garnet openly calls upon slaves to resist their oppressors.
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After Douglas himself escaped slavery his goals were to ¨abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen.¨ through the North Star
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Over 300 people attended the meetng to discuss the rights of American women, and it concluded with the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments.
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Tubman flees to Philladelphia and later returns to Maryland to free other slaves.
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state, and it also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
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contributed to the outbreak of war by personalizing the political and economic arguments about slavery
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Masterful speech that debunked the beliefs that women are intillectually and physically inferior to men.
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Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932.
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War involved pro-slavery and anti-slavery militant activists. It paved the road for the American Civil War.
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories.
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Representative Preston Brooks brutally beat Senator Charles Sumner after Sumner gave an impassioned anti-slavery speech. Both became heros in their respective regions.
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Affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories which incresed regional tension.
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The constitution would have protected the right to own slaves within the region.
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There were seven Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln and Douglas squared off against each other, challenging the other's ideas about many topics such as slavery and its future in the United States
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Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal planning to distribute the weapons to slaves and freefom fighters across the country, but the raid failed.
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Republican canidate Abraham Lincoln ran against Democrat Stephen Douglas, the main topic of discussion being slavery
