| A | B |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Lyman Beecher | father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and a dozen other abolitionist Beechers; a preacher of the Second Great Awakening |
| Hinton Helper | wrote "The Impending Crisis of the South"; from North Carolina |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company | sent abolitionists to Kansas to counter the influence of pro-slavery settlers |
| Beecher's Bibles | breech loading Sharp's rifles taken to Kansas |
| Nebrascals | abolitionists in Nebraska territory |
| border ruffians | pro-slavery thugs from Missouri who went to Kansas to vote illegally in 1855 |
| Sack of Lawrence | destruction of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces in 1856 |
| Shawnee Mission | seat of pro-slavery government in Kansas |
| Topeka | seat of abolitionist government in Kansas |
| John Brown | believed it was his God given mission to start a conflict to destroy slavery |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | John Brown's murder of five proslavery settlers in Kansas |
| Lecompton Constitution | pro-slavery Constitution which, with trickery, would have established slavery in Kansas |
| James Buchanan | became president in 1856, did nothing to prevent the Civil War |
| Jayhawker | an anti-slavery guerilla fighter in Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | the guerilla war in Kansas over slavery in the years just prior to the Civil War |
| Charles Sumner | leading abolitionist from Mass., attacked on the floor of the Senate by Preston Brooks |
| Preston Brooks | attacked Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate |
| John C. Fremont | Pathfinder of the West; Republican nominee in 1856 |
| Know Nothings | American Party; nativists, nominated Millard Fillmore in 1856 |
| Roman Catholicism | religion of John C. Fremont; a religion hated by nativists |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom in 1857 |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice who wrote the opinion in the Dred Scott case |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | slaves are property; Missouri Compromie unconstitutional |
| Panic of 1857 | caused by speculation in grain, land and railroads |
| First Homestead Act | killed by Buchanan veto |
| Tariff of 1857 | lowered the tariff to 20 percent |
| logrolling | political horse trading |
| Freeport Doctrine | Stephen Douglass' idea that slavery cannot exist where the local people don't enforce it with police power |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | Douglas won the Senate seat but lost support in the South, costing himself the presidency in 1860 |
| Harper's Ferry Raid | John Brown's attempt to start a slave revolt by capturing the Harper's Ferry arsenal |
| Robert E. Lee | led Marines to put down the Harper's Ferry raid |
| John Wilkes Booth | witnessed the execution of John Brown |
| Election of 1860 | Democratic vote split three ways; Lincoln wins but is a minority president |
| John Breckenridge | fire eater candidate in 1860 |
| John Bell | Constitutional Union Party |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate |
| South Carolina | first state to secede |
| Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia | followed SC out of the Union after the election of 1860 |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the CSA |
| CSA | Confederate States of America |
| Crittenden Compromise | last ditch effort to save the Union by protecting slavery with constitutional amendments |
