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2. Southern planter, Democratic politician and hero of the Mexican-American War
6. author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
9. led a daring raid from Kansas across the border into Missouri, where he killed one slave owner and freed 11 slaves.
11. outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights. Received an invitation to meet president Lincoln
12. Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress
13. a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
14. led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War
15. was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people

1. spent his life disturbing the peace of the nation in the cause of justice
3. sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court
4. He believed that only a state, through the voice of its inhabitants and their elected legislatures, had the right to decide to allow slavery within its borders
5. helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
7. American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
8. led the South's attempt at secession during the Civil War
10. risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the Civil War