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1852 BCE
Republic of South Africa
Was an independent and internationally recognized country -
The Compromise of 1850
They make California a free state and passing the slaver act. -
The Great Exhibition
The worlds first fair -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Was a novel about how she watched the slaves and what it was like. -
Japan Opening Trade
Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery. -
Pro slavery group Attacks antislavery
Jones, attacked and ransacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts, in the hopes to make them a free state. -
Uprising Against British rule
Widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India -
John Brown sizes the federal
John Brown sizes the federal -
Russian serfs
manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs of the Russian Empire.