| A | B |
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| Republican Party | Main goal was to fight the extension of slavery |
| Susan B. Anthony | Fought to get women the right to vote |
| Freedom's Journal | First black newspaper |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led a raid on a Proslavery settlement, killing 5 men in 1856 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Allowed California to be admitted as a free state |
| Dred Scott Decision | An African American man who sued for his freedom but lost |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that America should expand its territorial limits |
| Remember the Alamo | This was the rallying cry for the Americans in Texas to move against Santa Anna |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Repealed the Missouri compromise |
| Nat Turner | This rebellion in 1831 resulted in the killing of 60 slaveholders before the men were captured and killed |
| Gadsden Purchase | In 1853 this added another piece of land to the US |
| Stephan F. Austin | He led 300 American families to eastern Texas |
| Sam Houston | Leader of the Texans at the battle of the Alamo, President of the Lone Star |
| Seneca Falls | This is where a meeting of women's rights took place |
| Brigham Young | Led Mormans to the Great Salt Lake |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Made Northerns return runaway slaves to their owners in the south |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriett Beecher Stowe, talking about the events of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Leading aboltionist. He thought slavery was a sin the eyes of God. |
| Daniel Webster | He was from Massachusettes, didn't like slavery but wouldn't say it outloud for fear it would divide the Union |
| Frederick Douglass | Spoke and wrote elquently about slavery, published the Northern Star |
| Henry Clay | The great Compromiser |
| James Polk | Democratic nomination for President. Became 11th President |
