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- IN OCTOBER 1859, HOPING TO INCITEA SLAVE REBELLION, THEABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWNCAPTURED A FEDERAL ARSENAL INTHIS VIRGINIA TOWN
- FOLLOWING THIS FAMOUS SPEECH,CONGRESSMAN PRESTON BROOKS OFSOUTH CAROLINA BEAT SENATORCHARLES SUMNER OFMASSACHUSETTS ALMOST TO DEATH
- STATED DURING THELINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, THIS"DOCTRINE" HELD THAT SLAVERYCOULD NOT EXIST WHERE LOCALPEOPLE WOULD NOT ENFORCE IT
- THIS TERM DESCRIBES THE POLICYPROPOSED BY SENATOR LEWIS CASSOF MICHIGAN THAT AMERICANVOTERS DECIDE WHETHER TO PERMITSLAVERY IN THE WESTERNTERRITORIES
- ALSO KNOWN AS THE 'LITTLE GIANT,"THIS ILLINOIS SENATOR CALLED FORBUILDING A TRANSCONTINENTALRAILROAD AND LOST A SERIES OFDEBATES TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN(ALTHOUGH HE DID WIN THEELECTION)
- DEFENDED BY TEXASREVOLUTIONARIES, THIS CATHOLICMISSION IN SAN ANTONIO DE BEXARFELL TO MEXICAN FORCESCOMMANDED BY SANTA ANNA IN 1836
- THIS ABOLITIONIST AND FOUNDER OFTHE LIBERATOR BURNED A COPY OF THECONSTITUTION AND CALLED FOR"NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS"
- THIS UNPOPULAR 1854 LAWCHAMPIONED BY ILLINOIS SENATORSTEPHEN DOUGLAS OPENED THELOUISIANA PURCHASE TOSETTLEMENT BY SLAVEHOLDERS
- ANOTHER NAME GIVEN TO THE SERIESOF "STATIONS" AND "CONDUCTORS"WHO MOVED RUNAWAY SLAVESNORTH TO FREEDOM
- WRITTEN BY THE ATTENDEES OF THESENECA FALLS CONVENTION, THISREVOLUTIONARY DOCUMENT NOTEDTHAT "ALL MEN AND WOMEN ARECREATED EQUAL"
- PROPOSED BY HENRY CLAY, THISCOMPROMISE CALLED FORCALIFORNIA TO BE ADMITTED AS AFREE STATE, THE BANNING OF THEWASHINGTON, DC, SLAVE TRADE,AND A STRONGER FUGITIVE SLAVELAW
- A TERM COINED BY JOHN L.O'SULLIVAN, THIS TERM DESCRIBEDNINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANS'BELIEF THAT GOD WILLED THEM TOCONTROL ALL OF NORTH AMERICA
- THIS ABOLITIONIST AND HIS SONSKILLED FIVE PROSLAVERY SETTLERSAT POTTAWATOMIE CREEK, KANSAS,IN MAY 1856
- TAKING PLACE IN UPSTATE NEWYORK IN 1848, THIS WAS THE FIRSTWOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION INAMERICAN HISTORY
- FOUNDED BY JOHN HUMPHREYNOYES, THIS UTOPIAN COMMUNITYATTRACTED HARSH CRITICISM FORITS POLICIES OF FREE LOVE ANDCOMMUNAL CHILD-REARING
- THIS FEDERAL LAW REQUIREDAMERICAN CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATEIN THE CAPTURE OF RUNAWAYSLAVES AND BANNED THEM FROMGIVING SHELTER AND FOOD TORUNAWAYS
- CONSIDERED A REACTION AGAINSTTHE SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM OF THEENLIGHTENMENT, THIS MOVEMENTVALUED INTUITION, EMOTION, ANDSUBLIME NATURE
- THE WINNER OF THE 1844PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THISTENNESSEE DEMOCRAT FAVORED THEANNEXATION OF TEXAS ANDOREGON
- THESE PRO-SLAVERY AMERICANADVENTURERS USED THEIR OWNPRIVATE ARMIES TO INVADE CUBAAND CENTRAL AMERICA(UNSUCCESSFULLY)
- OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE FATHEROF "MODERN REVIVALISM," THISPRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WAS ALEADER OF THE SECOND GREATAWAKENING