Effects of Expansion

An abolitionist and women's rights leader who escaped from slavery

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

An escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which told about the cruelties of slavery.

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

He was hanged for leading a raid against slavery in Harpers Ferry, VA.

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

Former slave who was a writer, editor, and leading abolitionist

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

Founder of the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

A law passed in 1820 dividing the Louisiana Territory into areas allowing Missouri to be a slave state, but Maine to be free.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

A law passed that said escaped slave had to be returned to their owners.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

A law passed allowing two territories to decided for themselves whether or not they wanted to allow slavery.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

A law that stated that California was admitted to the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision