| A | B |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Popular Sovereignty | allows voters in an area to decide slavery |
| Dred Scott | a slave who sued for his freedom |
| John Brown | an abolitionist who raided an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| South | did not like Lincoln's view on slavery |
| secede | to withdraw |
| South Carolina | 1st state to secede from the Union |
| Confederate States of America | another name for the South |
| Union | another name for the United States |