| A | B |
|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | proposal to ban all slavery in the West |
| sectionalism | a devotion to one geographic region rather than those of the whole country |
| popular sovereignty | principal that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether to ban or permit slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | An agreement that allowed CA to enter as a free state, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico, stronger slave laws |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Law that made it a crime to help fugitive slaves |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | powerful anti-slavery novel |
| Henry Clay | proposed Compromise of 1850 and Missouri Compromise |
| Anthony Burns | fugitive slave in Boston abolitionist tried to free by storming the court house but were unsuccessful |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement that allowed the south to enter union as a slave state and Main as a free state |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that allowed voters in kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or to allow slavery. |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | incident in which abolitinist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery people |
| Stephen Douglas | supported the idea of building a railroad to the west |
| Franklin Pierce | 14th president argued that we needed slaves in the south for the southern economy |
| Bleeding Kansas | a serious of battles due to popular soverignty in Kansas |
| Republican Party | political party formed in 1850 to stop the spread of slavery |
| Dred Scott decision | US Supreme court decision that declared that African Americans were not citizens |
| Roger B. Taney | Supreme Court Justice ruling the Dred Scott case |
| John Brown's raid | At Harpers Ferry John and sons tried to organize an escape for African Americans and failed |
| secession | breaking apart from the Union |
| John Crittenden | Proposed amendments to satisfy the south |
| Jefferson Davis | 1st President for the south |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during the civil war, 16th president of the United States |
| Confederate States of America | nation formed by the Southern states; aka the Confederacy |
| Union | Northern states |
| Confederacy | Southern states |
