| A | B |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one's state |
| missouri compromise | created an imaginary line that said anything above the 36 degree line was free and anything below was slave |
| missouri | a slave state |
| maine | free state |
| abolitionist | a person against slavery |
| compromise of 1850 | had 5 points in it |
| Henry Clay | known as Great Compromiser |
| civil war | a war between people of the same nation |
| wilmot provisio | a law that tried to ban slavery in the west |
| free soil party | political party that wanted to ban slavery in west |
| secede | withdraw |
| popular sovereignty | to vote |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book about evils of slavery |
| Harriet B. Stowe | author of UTC |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed voters to decide on slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | allowed CA as a free state; Fugitive Slave Law; slave trade banned in DC |
| Fugitive Slave Law | forced Northerners to catch runaway slaves |
| Dred Scott | slave; sued for his freedom; reversed the Missouri Compromise |
| California | a free state |
| Border Ruffians | crossed the border into K-N illegally to vote for slavery |
| Abolitionist | a person who opposed slavery |
| oppose | to dislike |
| John Brown | tried to start a slave revolt |
| Dred Scott Case | Supreme Court ruled to reverse Missouri Compromise and Slavery could be anywhere |
| Lincoln's Goal | Preserve the Union |
| Lincoln's Party | Republican |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | was split into 2 territories |
| Fort Sumter | First shot were fired of the Civil War |