Authors & Influential People

Question 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 1

• Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Lincoln called her “the little lady who made this big war.”

Question 2

Stephen Douglas

Answer 2

• Senator from Illinois; pushed Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Debated Lincoln in 1858 Senate race

Question 3

John Brown

Answer 3

• Radical abolitionist who believed in violence to end slavery
• Led Bleeding Kansas raids and Harper’s Ferry Raid

Question 4

Julia Ward Howe

Answer 4

• Wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (a popular Union anthem during the Civil War)
• Symbolized Northern patriotism and religious motivation