A | B |
Most Southerners | wanted to keep slaves |
Most Northerners | wanted to free them |
Frederick Douglass | a former slave who published his own newspaper called "The North Star" |
Underground Railroad | a series of paths and hiding places that help slaves escape |
Harriet Tubman | a former slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad |
Susan B. Anthony | woman involved in the suffrage movement who wasn't allowed to speak in public |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights |
Sojourner Truth | former slave who became famous for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?" |
Lawsuit | Sojourner truth was the first woman to win this against a white man |
Douglass, Truth, Tubman | All former slaves |
States' Rights | States have the final authority over the federal government |
John Brown | Tried to get slaves to revolt against masters at Harper's Ferry |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Slavery & States Rights | Two main issues that divided the North & South |