People

Question 0

John Brown

Answer 0

Brown planned to steal guns that were being stored in Harpers Ferry, Virginia and with a team of men free as many slaves as possible in the South.

Question 1

Nat Turner

Answer 1

Led the biggest slave rebellion ever. Claimed he had a vision to kill whites and him and a few others killed about 60 whites.

Question 2

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 2

Was president during the Civil War and chose sides with the North.

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 3

Wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin about an enslaved man who was abused by Simon Legree and eventually died from a beating.

Question 4

Daniel Webster

Answer 4

A member of Congress for Massachusetts who spoke for the Northeast.

Question 5

Henry Clay

Answer 5

A senator that persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Act of 1820.

Question 6

Stephen Douglas

Answer 6

Pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 which pushed the nation closer to war.

Question 7

Dred Scott

Answer 7

An enslaved man who was a slave in a free state, who sued for his freedom, but was not granted. The Supreme Court ruled him not free because he was not a citizen and he was property of his owner so his owner had property rights.

Question 8

Frederick Douglas

Answer 8

Born into slavery and broke the law by learning to read, he eventually escaped to the North and spoke out against slavery. He also published an anti-slavery newspaper called the North Star.