| A | B |
|---|
| news article | current events story |
| news story | expresses no personal opinion |
| editorial | an opinion article |
| predjudice | negative opinion formed without proof |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | territories give the choice of having slavery |
| Underground railroad | secret routes to help escaping slaves to freedom |
| abolitionist | someone who wanted to end slavery |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court ruled slaves were property |
| Harriet Tubman | helped with the Underground Railroad |
| cotton | most profitable crop of the South |
| Abraham Lincoln wanted | no new slave states |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
| Frederick Douglass | spoke against slavery |
| 1st stepin analyzing the news | identify the type of article |
| Confederacy | Southern states that left the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the South |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| fugitive slave laws | could go into North and bring the slaves back |
