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Boston area ministers founded the American Temperance Society (ATS).
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New York bans slavery
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Underground Railroad is established
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American anti-slavery society was formed
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Texas gains independence
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Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered
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Fredrick Douglass escapes from slavery and becomes an abolitionist
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Harriet Tubman fled Maryland, leaving her family behind
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Seneca Falls Convention
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The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women
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Maine bans the sale of alcohol
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Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony, are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City
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Mary Jane Patterson is the first african-american women to earn a college degree
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Unground Railroad ends
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Fedral Goverment passes the 18th amdendant
bands the making manufacture, transportation and sale of "intoxicating liquors" illegal under its power to regulate interstate commerce
