Antecedents

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  • Angelina Grimke

    An American abolishment who advocated Women's rights.
  • 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
    being a slave
  • 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.