| A | B |
| Missouri Compromise | A imaginary line through Louisiana south of it slavery was allowed and north of it wasn’t |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement that slaves if ran away to North would have to come back |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Was a written attack on slavery, by Harriet Stowe |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | A law that made it legal for slavery in Kansas and Nebraska |
| Dred Scott Decision | The court saying that slaves are property and you can bring property wherever you want, because it says it in the Constution. |
| Secession | to break away |
| Confederate States of America | The South’s decided to break away and make its own country the |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | An abolitionist that wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | An Illinois lawyer that was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| John Brown | An Abolitionist who held a raid in Virgina and then quickly caught |
| Jefferson Davis | The President of Confederate States |