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Harriet Tubman | Excaped slave who helped slaves escape using Underground Railroad |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wrote "The Liberator" |
Frederick Douglas | Former slave who wrote "The North Star" |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist who wrote the novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
John Brown | Abolitionist who tried to start a revolution against slavery in Kansas |
Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Ct. case that say slaves were not citizens, were property of owners |
Nullification | The idea that states would have the right to get rid of lalws by the federal gov't if they don't like them |
Compromise of 1850 | Law saying California would be a free state & N. Mex. & Utah territories would vote to decide slavery |
Fugitive Slave Act | Law saying U.S. citizens must help return escaped slaves to owners. |