| A | B |
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| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave who brought slaves to freedom via the Underground RR |
| Sojourner Truth | escaped slave who gave speeches about abolition and women's rights |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist who published "The Liberator" |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who published "The North Star" |
| Underground Railroad | a secret network that brought slaves to freedom |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | law that defined where slavery would exist within the Louisiana Territory |
| Compromise of 1850 | California a free state, fugitive slave law, voting about slavery in NM and UT |
| Fugitive Slave Act | all people must help return escaped slaves to their masters |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a book that got many more Northerners to support abolition |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that allowed people in this territory to vote on the issue of slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | violence that occured due to voting about slavery |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | got Abe Lincoln national attention |
| John Brown | led a raid on an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln won, led to southern secession |
| Sectionalism | loyalty to one's region, rather than country |
| States' Rights | beliefs that states should have more power |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
| Lincoln's War Early War Goal | preserve the union |
| Lincoln's Later War Goal | end slavery |
