The Failure of Politicians

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This Underground Railroad conductor is believed to have made 19 trips into the South, rescuing over 300 people.

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Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this Anti-Slavery novel that would become the best seller of the nineteenth century.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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William Lloyd Garrison would become one of the most well known abolitionist due to the radical views expressed in his anti-slavery newspaper called what?

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"The Liberator"

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This former slave would become arguably the best known abolitionist speaker of the mid-nineteenth century.

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Frederick Douglass

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Which former U.S. President was responsible for signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law?

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Franklin Pierce

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This term was often used to describe what happened in Kansas once its settlement began.

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Bleeding Kansas

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After the notoriously "corrupt" 1856 Elections in Kansas, which forces would emerge victorious?

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Pro-Slavery

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The disastrous results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act would ultimately destroy which political party?

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Whigs

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The 1857 Dred Scott ruling decided that Mr. Scott was indeed a free man.

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False

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The town men blamed for much of the political upheaval in this era, Franklin Pierce & James Buchanan, were members of which political party?

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Democrats