Tensions Between The States

Congressman who spoke out against Kansas-Nebraska Act and it’s fallout earned him a canning.

• Frederick Douglass

• Charles Sumner

• William Seward

• Steven Douglas

Publisher of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglass

• John Brown

Illinois senator who lost the 1860 presidential election.

• Abraham Lincoln

• William Gadsden

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Stephen Douglas

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• Charles Sumner

• Frederick Douglass

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unsuccessfully sued for emancipation upon his owner’s relocation to a free state.

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

First Republican to win the office of U.S. president.

• John Freemont

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant

• Charles Sumner

Lead an attempted slave rebellion raiding Harper’s Ferry.

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• William Seward

• Dred Scott

Responsible for acquiring the last piece of land of the continental 48 states in order to construct a railroad connecting to southern California, now the southern portions of the states of Arizona and New Mexico.

• William Gadsden

• William Seward

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Established a network of anti-slave safehouses referred to as The Underground Railroad.

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Social reformer, abolitionist, orator, published The North Star abolitionist paper.

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• William Seward

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton