Escaped slave from Maryland
Harriot Tubman
Last great speech that Daniel Webster made
Seventh of March Speech
divided Kansas and Nebraska
Kansas-Nebraska Act
one of the most articulate preachers of his day
Henry Ward Beecher
president of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis
network of escape routes
Underground Railroad
proposed the principle of popular sovereignty
radical abolitionist who attacked a proslavery settlement
John Brown
a gang of 21 people were lead into this town
(town, state)
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Presidential candidate for the republicans
Abraham Lincoln
Nat Turner
stipulated that in the land gained from Mexico " neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory"
Wilmot Proviso
Where most proslavery settlers stayed
Lecompton
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Minor party created in the spring of 1890
Constitutional Union Party
What nation was founded in 1816
Liberia
Mexican war hero who ran for president
Headquarters of the antislavery settlers
Lawrence
One of the Essayists and poets at the time
John Greenleaf Whitter
Democrat's presidential candidate
Stephan A Douglas
who were the abolitionists influenced by
important third party that entered the presidential race
Free-soil party
one of the most colorful political figures of his era
Stephan A. Douglas
The man the illinois republicans to run against Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's running mate
Hannibal Hamlin