| A | B |
|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican elected in 1860 |
| James Buchanan | Democrat elected in 1856 |
| Nat Turner | led most famous slave revolt in Am. history |
| Frederick Douglass | most famous African American abolitionist |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | most famous women's rights activist |
| Roger Taney | Decided Dred Scott with Supreme Court |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democrat candidate in 1860 |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the new Confederate States of America |
| popular sovereignty | letting people decide about slavery |
| slavery | topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| states' rights | how Southerners justified secession |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe's book about cruelty of slavery |
| Maine | free state admitted through Missouri Compromise |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
