| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin Pierce | democratic president in 1852 who supported the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Stepehen Douglas | Illinois senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | passed to build a railroad to the west coast and allow popular sovereignty in KS & NE |
| Trancontinental Railroad | railroad built from across the continent |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | John Brown killed five pro-slavery men in 1856 |
| Charles Sumner | Massachusetts Senator who criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas |
| Preston Brooks | representative who attacked Sumner in the Senate chambers |
| Sack of Lawrence | attack on that destroyed the anti-slavery town in 1856 |
