| A | B |
|---|
| 1854 | Republican Party formed |
| John Brown | murdered five men in Pottawatomie Creek |
| Dred Scott | slave sued his owner for freedom |
| John C. Fremont | Republican candidate in 1856 |
| James Buchanan | won election of 1856 |
| South Carolina | seceded from the Union first |
| Jefferson Davis | elected President of the Confederacy |
| Stephen Douglas | Lincoln debated against in 1858 |
| slavery | this issue split the Democratic party in 1860 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
