Match the description to the correct person

Matching exercise

Match the items on the left to the items on the right.

Advocate for abolition who was beaten on the Senate floor.
Powerful Illinois senator who believed in "popular sovereignty."
Introduced a resolution calling for the abolition of slavery in territory won from the Mexican War.
First successful presidential candidate of the Republican Party.
Led a bloody slave revolt that killed 57 whites in Virginia.
Radical opponent of slavery who founded an abolitionist newspaper and the American Antislavery Society.
Author of a book that stirred Northern outrage over the Fugitive Slave Law.
Slave whose case asking for freedom led the Supreme Court to rule the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Escaped slave who became famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Fiery abolitionist who led raids killing pro-slavery men in Kansas and who led an unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry.
Escaped slave who became a powerful spokesman for abolition and wrote an autobiography. Became an advisor to President Lincoln.
Won the election of 1856, but was ineffectual in facing the crises leading to the Civil War.
Freed slave who became a spokeswoman for abolition as well as women's rights.
Virginian who turned down an offer to command the Union forces because he felt a special loyalty to his state.
'Great Compromiser' who helped craft both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.