| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin Pierce | won presidential election of 1852 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | question of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty |
| popular sovereignty | term used when voters in a territory decide whether or not to allow slavery |
| stop spread of slavery | main goal of the Free Soil Party |
| John Brown | abolitionist whose deeds intensified sectional conflict |
| Beecher's Bibles | rifles sent to Kansas by Abolitionist Reverend Henry Ward Beecher' congregation |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans |
| Wilmot Proviso | called on Congress to outlaw slavery in any land won from Mexico |
| sectionalism | devotion to the interests of one region instead of to the country as a whole |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's cabin |
| Dred Scott | slave that lost a court case to make him free |
