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The document that established the government of the United States.
Protected the institution of slavery with the Three-Fifths Clause, the ban on Congress ending the slave trade for 20 years, and the fugitive slave clause. -
These rights were not applied to slaves since they were considered property and not people.
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While Americans could not purchase slaves from other nations, it did not stop the purchase of slaves who were born within the system.
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It banned slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border.
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Displacement of Native Americans to the west.
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Organized by the Anti-Slavery Society, this convention made women's rights and abolition allies in the war towards equality.
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Sojourner Truth's speech that highlighted the fact that Black women were not included in the women's suffrage
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Admitted California as a free state, provided government for Utah and New Mexico, established boundaries around Texas, called for the abolition of slavery in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Declared the Compromise of 1850 unconstitutional, denied the legality of citizenship of Black people in America, and upheld slavery.
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Sets the stage for the Civil War.
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Freed the slaves in the Confederacy as an act of war.
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Effectively ended the Civil War. Former Confederates had to promise not to take arms against the United States and were allowed to go home.
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Fighting continued in the southern states who did not know of the Lee's surrender.
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Abolished slavery in the US
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Granted US Citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
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Movement splits over abolition.
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Women did not have the right to vote until 1920.
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