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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave, was a famous leader of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of volunteers who hid fugitive slaves on their dangerous journey north to freedom. She is the one that saved millions of lives. -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore became the 13th president. Taylor fell ill and deid and thats when Millard took his place. Unlike preisdent Taylor, Fillmore supported the compromise, then the Compromise of 1850 became law. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin also what she pulished. This novel showed the horrors of slavery. This popular book helped many in the North see the fight to ban slavery as a morla struggle. -
Franklin Pierce
The Whig Party lost much of its political power. As a aresult, Democratic canidate Pierce won the presidential election. Eventually the Whig party soon splikt even further, some Whig members joined the American Party. -
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act became a law in 1854. It split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. Each state would decide whether or not to allow slavery. This act allowed popular sovereignty -
James Buchanan
The Republicans ran thier first candidate for president, it was John C. Fremont. Democrat James Buchanan won the election. Buchanan however received less then half the popular vote. James Buchanan was the 15th president. -
Dred Scott
The first Supreme Court decision involving a slave named Dred Scott. Scott claimed that residing in the free states made him a free man. In Dred Scott v. Sanford Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote that being in a free state did not make a slave free. -
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln also opposed slavery, but he also did not support popular sovereignty. Abraham called slavery "A vast moral evil" and insisted on federal legislation to outlaw slavery. -
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas ran for re-election to the Senate in Illinois. Republican Abraham Lincoln ran against him. They boith had a series of debates about slavery in the territores. -
John Brown
John Brown, a fierce opponent of slavery, killed five proslavery people in a raid. This killing triggered dozens of violent actions throughtout the territory. About 200 people were killed, because of the violence on both sides, the territory was nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas".
