Pre-Civil War

This person seized a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

I was the senator who proposed the compromise of 1850.

A person who fought for the South was a member of the

Which event marked the start of the Civil War?

This allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

I was an escaped slave from Maryland who gave a powerful Independence Day speech.

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

People working of this risked their lives to help slaves escape to the North.

Who rejected the Compromise of 1850 and called for special protection of the South?

This southern state was the first to secede from the Union.

Who demanded an end to slavery, "by violence if necessary?"

The Compromise of 1850 proposed that this state should be admitted to the Union.