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Angelina Grimke
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. -
Stephan Douglass
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election, but he was defeated by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln -
Fredrick Douglas
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman -
Missouri Compromise
THE 36 30 lines was created to separate free states from enslaved -
Mexican American war
The war to gain texass -
Compromise of 1850
Defused a political dispute between free and slave states -
Kansas and Nebraska act
Created Kansas and Nebraska -
John Brown
Ran the Raid on Harper Ferry and supported the revolt on slavery -
Dred scott case
Dred Scotts slave owner died and went to court to decide if he was a slave or freeman because he escaped to a free state and returned to
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Raid on harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid was an armed slave revolt -
Abraham Lincoln
Led American civil war was the 16th president -
William Loid Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison, who signed and printed his name Wm. Lloyd Garrison, was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.