Civil War - Causes/People

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison

Strong abolitionist, published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison

Known as the conductor of the underground railroad.

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist who raided the Harper's Ferry arsenal in 1859 to arm slaves to revolt.

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison

Invented the cotton gin.

• Eli Whitney
• Abe Lincoln
• Dred Scott
• Frederick Douglass

Slavery taken into free territory, sued for his freedom in supreme court and lost.

• Eli Whitney
• Abe Lincoln
• Dred Scott
• Frederick Douglass

Led a slave uprising in 1831, killing over 50 people, causing stricter rules/codes against slaves.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave who wrote about slavery earning money to buy his own freedom.

• Eli Whitney
• Abe Lincoln
• Dred Scott
• Frederick Douglass

Was in a famous debate in 1858 for Illinois Senate, supported popular sovereignty.

• Stephen Douglas

• Abe Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

Was in a famous debate in 1858 for Illinois Senate, said our country could not survive divided over the slavery issue. "A house divided can not stand".

• Stephen Douglas

• Abe Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner