| A | B |
|---|
| Civil War | War between people of the same country |
| Fugitives | Slaves that had fled for freedom |
| Abraham Lincoln | Presidential Candidate - Republicans 1860 |
| Border Ruffians | Armed groups from Missouri who voted in Kansas |
| States' rights | Southerners believed they could secede due to this belief |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Assisting runaway slaves a person could be fined or imprisoned |
| Secede | To leave |
| Civil War | War between people of the same country |
| Confederacy | Seceding states formed a new nation in 1861 |
| Stephen Douglas | Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| Jefferson Davis | Confederacy President |
| John Brown | Tried to take over a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to a region |
| Popular Sovereignty | Decide by voting if slavery would be allowed in a territory. |
| Dred Scott Decision | Blacks were property, not citizens. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Calif. admitted as a free state, slave trade was banned in Washington, D.C. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Slavery |
| First state to shed blood in a civil war over slavery | Kansas |
