| A | B |
|---|
| popular sovereignty | political power belongs to the people |
| Wilmot Proviso | document stating that no slavery would be allowed in the Mexican Cession |
| sectionalism | favoring one section of the country over the entire country |
| Free-Soil Party | anti-slavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso |
| Compromise of 1850 | allowed California to join the Union as a free state |
| Fugitive Slave Act | made it a crime to help runaway slaves |
| Anthony Burns | runaway slave who was arrested in Boston |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book written to show the cruelty of slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
