| A | B |
|---|
| to leave the union | secede |
| a large southern home in which the slaves worked | plantation |
| someone who reacts violently | radical |
| Harriet Beacher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abolitionists | people who try to end slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Citizens in new states could choose whether to be free or slave states |
| Bleeding Kansas | A result of a radical movement in which elections weren't handled properly |
| Fugitive Slave Laws | Any slave who was caught escaping had to be returned to his owner |
| John Brown | Radical abolotionist who energized the Northern opponents and angered the South |
| Underground railroad | Network for escaping slaves |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Dred Scott Decision | A slave could not be free even if he lived in a free state |
| border states | Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Virginia |
| South Carolina | First southern state to sucede |
| Tennessee | Last southern state to sucede |
| Harriet Tubman | Grandma Moses- Lead conductor of the Undergound Railroad |
| Ft. Sumter | 4 other Southern states to sucede |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Wrote the Liberator which endorsed the ending of slavery |
| Frederick Douglas | Powerful orator |
