Harriet Tubman - Former slave, helped runaway slaves find freedom., John Brown - Believed only violence could end slavery. Tried to lead a slave uprising., Uncle Tom's Cabin - A best-selling book that changed many people's minds to be against slavery., Nat Turner - Runaway slave who returned South and led an uprising, killing many whites., Underground Railroad - A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped runaway slaves to freedom., Fugitive Slave Act - Allowed slave-catchers to capture those they said were runaway slaves and return them to the South., Abolitionist - Term for those who wanted to ban slavery in the United States., Caning of Sumner - When violence occured in our own Congress, with a Southerner beating a Northerner with no mercy., Compromise of 1850 - This helped us avoid war. Both the North and the South got things they wanted.,

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