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The Fugitive Slave Act and the Joshua Glover Case in Milwaukee
Investigate the 1854 rescue of Joshua Glover in Milwaukee and Wisconsin's defiance of the federal Fugitive Slave Law.
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Abolition, Sectional Conflict, and the Road to the Civil War
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Examine the economic differences, legislative compromises, abolitionist resistance, and political events that led to sectional division and the outbreak of the Civil War.
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