| A | B |
|---|
| states rights | rights and powers the are reserved for the states by the constitution |
| arsenal | storage place for weapons |
| dred scott | slave sued for his freedom lost his case in supreme court |
| fort sumter | first shots of the civil war were fired here in april 1862 |
| secede | to leave or withdraw |
| uncle toms cabin | the antislavery novel written in 1852 |
| california | state entered union as a free state as a part ofthe compromise of 1850 |
| maine | state entered the union as a free state to balance missouri as a slave state in 1820 |
| popular sovereignty | before the civil war the idea tht people living in a territory had the right to decide by votiong if slavery would b alowed |
| martyr | person who scarafises his or her life for a principle of a cause |
| abraham lincoln | was elected president 1860 by 40 percent or the vote |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a region |
| border ruffians | missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in kansas's eletion during the mid1850s |
| harpers ferry | us arsenal in this virgina town was captured in 1859 in an attemt to begin a slave revolt |
| south carolina | this stated was the firt to secede form the union and the first shots of war were fired here |
| jefferson davis | elected president of the confederate states of america 1861 |
| republican | new party begun in 1854 |
| john brown | radical abolitionist known for murdering settlers in kansas and capturing an arsenal to begin slave rebellion |
