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Stack #175662
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Freddrick Douglass | An escaped slave, wrote autobiography, speaker and abolitionist, wanted political change |
| William Garrisson | Abolitionist, one of the most hated, published the Liberated, in charge of Anti-Slavery society |
| John Q. Adams | Former president, fought the gag rule in Congress, which tried to table all debates against slavery |
| Lucrecra Moute | Abolitionist who began her fight for women's rights when she couldn't speak at the abolition convention in London |
| Wendell Phillips | "Abolition's golden trumpet" supported Garrison, boycotted slavery items |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lincoln remarked that she was the little women who started the civil war |
| Charles Phiney | Preacher who spoke out against slavery while a minister at Oberlin College |
| Denmark Vesey | Tried to lead a rebellion of 9,000 slaves in South Carolina, but failed and was killed |
| Harriet Jacobs | Former slave who wrote about her experiences |
| Nat Turner | He led one of the last major slave rebellions in Virginia, it led to tougher slave laws |
| Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy | A martyr who was killed trying to protect his abolitionist printing press |
| Sojourner Truth | Ex-slave, abolitionist, fought for women's rights |
| James Henry Hammond | Said that "Cotton is King" |
| Theodore D. Wells | Wrote the pamphlet "American Slavery as it is", one of the Lane Rebels that preached abolition in northwest |
| Chief Justice Taney | Appointed by Andrew Jackson into Supreme Court, Chief Justice that made the Dred Scott ruling |
| Andrew Jackson | President at time of Gag rule being passed, kept abolition mail from going down south |
| Fillmore | President during Compromise of 1850 |
| Polk | President during the war with Mexico |
| Pierce | President during Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Buchanan | Last president before Lincoln who witnessed the Dred Scott case |