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| abolitionist who wrote a newspaper called The Liberator which stimulated the growth of the antislavery movement. |
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| abolitionists who were the first white women to stand up to slavery; asked for slaves instead of money from their parents/ wrote American Slavery as it Is. |
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| Abolitionist/writer who encouraged slaves to rebel and overthrow the whites because of all the blood that had been shed. |
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| most widely known African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and spoke at many slavery protests and returned to United States to fight slavery at its source |
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| most successful African American woman conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
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| President who agreed on the annexations of Texas |
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| person who created the Wilmot Proviso |
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| President who was in support of Henry Clay's compromise; died in the presidency |
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| President who took Zachary Taylor's place |
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| Senator who split Clay's plans into 5 different bills called the Compromise of 1850. Also in the debates with Lincoln. |
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| Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which described slavery as an inhuman system; notified North of the troubles of slavery. |
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| Abolitionist who believed it was his God given duty to attack slavery at no cost. |
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| Senator who criticized antislavery senators such as Preston Brooks |
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| Representative who beat up Charles Sumner in congress. |
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| Represenatative of california who was chosen as a candidate for president and lost. |
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| in the election as Fremont, was from the demorcrat party and one by a landslide |
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| African American who thought he was free was not, and was sent to the supreme court where the chief justice ruled that slaves were property. |
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| Chief Justice of the supreme court in the Dred Scot Decision. |
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| Republican lawyeer who became president during the civil war and debated with Douglas. |
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| Senator who proposed last minute compromises to stop the South from seceding; it failed. |
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| The president of the Confederate States |
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