John Brown

It said that if California was a free state, then the Fugitive Slave Act had to be passed.

A law that permitted Missouri to become a slave state if Maine would become a free state.

A series of safe houses where "conductors" helped slaves escape to free states in the North.

Harriet Tubman

William Lloyd Garrison

A law that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote on whether or not they wanted to be free or slave states.

Dred Scott's case made it all the way to the Supreme Court where they decided he would have to remain a slave. Slaves did not have the right to sue.

They affected territories making decisions about whether or not slavery would be legal.

To give a criteria (list of things) that a territory needed to become a state?

Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Tubman