| A | B |
|---|
| secede | remove themselves |
| popular sovereignty | right of people to create their government |
| fugitive | runaway slaves |
| civil war | war between people of the same country |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| fugitive slave act | required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves |
| Wilmot Proviso | banned slavery in lands won from Mexico |
| Free Soil Party | keep slavery out of the western territories, stopping the spread of slavery |
| Dred Scott decision | Congress could not ban slavery, only state legislatures could |
| Compromise of 1850 | Five parts, which included California joining the Union as a free state |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican presidential candidate in 1860 |
| John Brown | Abolitionist whose deeds intensified sectional conflict |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator who proosed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Sectionalism | loyalty to a state or region instead of to a nation |
| guerrilla warfare | hit and run tactics |
| lawsuit | legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Met seven times to debate issues especially surrounding slavery, Lincoln described the nation as a "house divided" |
