| A | B |
|---|
| sectionalism | regional interests |
| fugitive slave act | government backing for slavery |
| Dred Scott Case | legally destroyed the Missouri Compromise line |
| John Brown | brought violence to Kansas |
| Harpers Ferry | Secret Six |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | best seller that enlightened others about slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Little Lady who brought on the big war |
| North | industry |
| South | plantations |
| Nat Turner | black slave revolt |
| tariffs | tax on imports |
| Compromise of 1850 | kept peace for only 4 years-California is FREE |
| Stephen Douglas | promoted popular sovereignty |
| Henry Clay | strong attempts made to keep unity in country |
| peculiar institution | way of living in South - slavery |
| Lincoln/Douglas Debate | Freeport Doctrine - Douglas loses support of south |
| stations | stops along the Underground Railroad |
| conductors | led slaves along the Underground Railroad |
| slave codes | rules most black were expected to follow in south |
| personal liberty codes | laws allowing one to not obey fugitive slave act if morally opposed to it |
| gag rule | could no longer read anti-slavery petitions in Congress |
| cotton gin | entrenched the south in slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | Free Soilers strike back at illegal vote validated by Congress |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | allowed for central route for railroad |
| nullification acts | declaring national law unconstitutional so don't have to follow |
| Harriet Tubman | led over 300 slaves to freedom |
| Frederick Douglas | Black abolitionist who was editor of North Star |
| Election of 1860 | Democrats split - Lincoln wins |
| popular sovereignty | people decide |
| secession | leaving union |
| confederate states of America - president | Jefferson Davis |
| Missouri Compromise | line marking free and slave states |
| Abraham Lincoln | killed by John Wilkes Booth |
| Union | Northern States |
| Confederacy | Southern States |
| pro-slaver | wanted to spread slavery |
| Free soiler | wanted land without slavery |
| South Carolina | First State to Secede |
| border ruffians | cross state borders to vote |
| Robert E Lee | General for Confederacy first asked to lead the Union forces |
