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Charles Sumner: beat Preston Brooks
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Daniel Webster: part of the Whig party, wanted to avoid Civil War, compromise of 1850
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Eli Whitney: invented that cotton gin in 1793
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Elijah P. Lovejoy: first white male killed because of abolitionist beliefs
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention, women's rights activist
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Frederick Douglas: abolitionist who published "The North Star", believed that the Constitution did call for no slavery
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Free Soilers: Abolitionist party
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Tubman: runaway slave who helped other slaves escape with the Underground Railroad
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Henry Clay: congressman, compromise of 1850
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Henry David Thoreau: Transcendentalist
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Henry Wadswroth Longfellow: American poet
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Horace B Greeley: Democratic Presidential Candidate, newspaper editor, New York Tribune
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John Brown: Massacre and rallying of slaves, white abolitionist, was executed by Virginia state
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Mother Ann Lee: female Jesus, founded the Shaker Utopian Community
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Nat Turner: led a slave rebellion in 1831
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Preston Brooks: congress man who was beated by Sumner for badmouthing state
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Ralph Waldo Emmerson: Transcendentalist
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Roger B Taney: chief justice of the Supreme court during the Dredd Scott Case
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Samuel Slater: "Father of the Industrial Revolution", opened the first mills
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Sojourner Truth: abolitionist and women's rights activist
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Stephen A Douglas: Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska act, popular sovereignty
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Susan B Anthony: Women's rigths and Temperance, worked for equal rights for women
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William Lloyd Garrison: abolitionist who published "The Liberator", believed that the Constitution allowed slavery