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Who were the people who tried to end slavery?
abolitionists
What was a person called who tried to end slavery before the civil war?
Abolitionist
Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
Why did the passages of the act lead to Bleeding Kansas and so much discord in American politics?
Passage of the act let to Bleeding Kansas because it caused violence over the issue of slavery. The state was supposed to vote about slavery, and people tried to force neighbors to be pro or anti slavery.
Who tried to help end slavery?
Abolitionist is a person who was against slavery and tried to get rid of it. Fredrick Douglass escaped slavery at the age 20 and became the most important African American leader of the 1800's. Sojourner Truth was another powerful speaker. He was an abolitionist and a women's rights speaker. Nat Turner was a slave and thought god called on him to end slavery. The Grimke Sisters (Angelina and Sarah) became well-known anti-slavery activists of the 1830's. They were members of a slave holding family in South Carolina. They did not share their parents support of slavery. They moved to Philidelphia and joined the abolitionist movement. Angelina tried to bring other white South women to the cause.
Who were the people who tried to end slavery?
abolitionists
The people who tried to end slavery were known as?
abolitionists
Who are the people who tried to stop slavery of slave trade?
abolitionists
What does abolotonist mean?
An abolitionist is a person who wants something ceased or abolished. Abolition for most of history, however, is the desire to end slavery. People who tried to end slavery in America were called abolitionists.
What was a person called who tried to end slavery before the civil war?
Abolitionist
How was Slavery in the US?
Slavery was very hard and people were tortured! They tried to escape to places like Canada. They did not have rights and they were owned.
Why was the history of slavery repressed for so long?
so many people tried to stop slavery like the north but the people in the south didnt want slavery to end so it then took them 200 years for the slavery to finnaly end
What policy tried to outlaw international war?
kellogg-briand act
Was the abolitionists in favor of outlawing slavery?
they tried to get rid of slavery
When did they try to end slavery?
January, 1863 is when they tried to end slavery.
What did Abe Lincoln do about slavery?
He tried to stop it.
Was there someone famous besides Abraham Lincoln who had tried to stop slavery?
Lots of people were "abolitionists" who worked to abolish slavery. See any good history book about that era for more details.
