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Abolishing Slavery - 1
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Abolishing Slavery - 2
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Appealing for Abolition
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Claiming the Right to Vote
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Direct Election of Senators
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Drafting the Bill of Rights - 1
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Drafting The Bill of Rights - 2
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Ensuring Essential Freedoms
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Equal Rights for Women
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Expanding Educational Opportunity
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Extending the Vote to Women
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Fighting for Freedom - 1
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Fighting for Freedom - 2
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Foreign and Domestic Spying
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Giving Freedom
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Hispanic Land Claims
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Petitioning for the Thirteenth Amendment
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Proclaiming Emancipation
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Reconstruction of the Union
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Regulating the Railroads
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Securing Woman Suffrage
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Seeking Equality Under the Law
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Suffrage for All
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The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
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The Amistad
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The Bill of Rights
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The Civil War
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The D.C. Emancipation Act
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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The First Female Senator
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The Gag Rule
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The Ku Klux Klan
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The Nineteenth Amendment
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The Nineteenth Amendment: Woman Suffrage
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The Right to Liberty
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The Seventeenth Amendment: Senate Elections
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The Sixteenth Amendment: Income Tax
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The Split Over Suffrage
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The Thirteenth Amendment
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Women Fight for the Vote
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Women Petition Against Slavery
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Working for Woman Suffrage
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