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Answer
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First president to own slaves
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George Washington
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Of the first 12 presidents, only two did not own any slaves. Name either
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John Adams and John Quincy Adams
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Last president to own slaves in office
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Zachary Taylor
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President in office during most of the civil war
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Abraham Lincoln
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Name of document that "freed the slaves" in confederate territory
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Emancipation Proclamation
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This eliminated chattel slavery nationwide as a lawful activity
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13th Amendment
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Last president to own a slave at any time in their life
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Last president born into a household with slave labor
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Woodrow Wilson
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President who owned the most slaves, but oversaw abolition of the international slave trade
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Thomas Jefferson
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Name of slave that president fathered multiple children with
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Sally Hemmings
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President who owned one slave named Tom, and when Tom escaped in 1814, did not appear to make significant effort to find him
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Martin van Buren
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The first memoir of life in the White House was published by Paul Jennings, a slave of this president
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James Madison
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This president oversaw the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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James Monroe
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These non-president founding fathers both brokered slave trades, but co-founded the New York Manumission Society
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Alexander Hamilton and John Jay
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This non-president founding father posted paid ads for missing slaves and slaves for sale, but later presided over the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
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Benjamin Franklin
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This state, at the time an independent nation, became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery
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Vermont
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All northern states had abolished slavery by 1804, this state was the last to act
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New Jersey
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One of the first protests of slavery was in 1688 from Dutch and German members of this religious group
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Quakers
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Holiday recognizing freeing of slaves in Texas
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Juneteenth
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Famous abolitionist and escaped slave, they helped ~70 slaves escape over ~13 missions, was later a spy for the Union Army
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Harriet Tubman
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Network of clandestine routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to free states and Canada
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Underground Railroad
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Escaped slave turned abolitionist, noted for his public speaking skills and autobiographies, later became a US diplomat to Haiti
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Frederick Douglass
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