| A | B |
|---|
| ban slavery in the lands won from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso |
| to withdraw formally from a membership in a group or an organization | Secede |
| anti-slavery party of the mid-1800s | Free-Soil Party |
| political policy that permitted the residents of federal territories to decide on whether to enter the union as free or slave state | Popular Sovereignty |
| allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popluar sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law | Compromise of 1850 |
| law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Act |
| enacted by northern states to counteract the Fugitive Slave Laws by granting right to escaped slaves and freedmen | Personal Liberty Laws |
| a system where black and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas | Underground Railroad |
| conductor of the Underground Railroad; a.k.a. Black Moses; and a fugitive slave | Harriet Tubman |
| author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory in to Kansas and Nebraska giving each territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| New York abolitionist, moved family around to confront slavery; made home in Lawrence, Ks. | John Brown |
| people are the only source of government power | popular soverignty |
| 1854-1856 violence between pro-slavery and antislavery opponents | bleeding Kansas |
| political party of mid-1850s; a.k.a. American Party; opposed immigration | Know Nothings |
| political party founded around an anti-slavery platform | Republican Party |
| a slave who had sued for his freedom in Missouri state court | Dredd Scott |
| Chief Justice in Scott case; | Roger B. Taney |
| raised in poverty, self-taught; 1836 Illinois St. Legislature; known for integrity and directness | Abraham Lincoln |
| a.k.a. little Giant, supported annexation of Texas, pro slavery, promoted popular sovereignty to reduce regional tensions. | Stephen Douglas |
| convinced Congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in the territories | Jefferson Davis |
| southern democratic candidate for President, from Kentucky, committed to expanding slavery into the territories | John C. Breckinridge |
| govt. of 11 southern states that seceded from the U.S. and fought against the Union | Confederate States of America |
| 1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent sucession of the southern states by allowing slavery in all territories south of the Missouri Compromise line | Crittenden Compromise |
| Federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina; first shots of the Civil War fired here | Fort Sumter |
| created by Stephen Douglas; explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code; states needed to pass laws to protect slavery | Freeport Doctrine |
