| A | B |
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom and lost |
| Bleeding Kansas | guerilla warfare broke out between pro-slavery and free-soil forces |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Famous debates during the 1858 senatorial race in Illinois |
| Temperance Movement | Part of women’s movement that campaigned against the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 formal meeting of women led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Secession | withdrawing from the Union |
| Republican Party | established to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| Freedmen | Freed slaves |
| Sectionalism | South – slavery; North – industrial needs/tariff; West – expansion/manifest destiny |
| John Brown | Believed God sent him to punish the supporters of Slavery |
| John C. Calhoun | South Carolinian who believed in states’ rights and was against the high tariff |
| Henry Clay | politician who was especially involved in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | Massachusetts senator who supported the Compromise of 1850 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the United States; considered by some to be the greatest |
| Frederick Douglass | Freedman who argued for the end of slavery |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Wrote Declaration of Sentiments; fought for women's suffrage |
