| A | B |
| Nationalism | Pride, Loyalty, and Protectiveness to your country |
| Sectionalism | a loyalty to your own region of the country |
| Patriotism | Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| Economic Growth | Nationalism tends to strengthen |
| Cotton and Slavery | Southern Economy |
| Manufacturing and Trade | Northern Economy |
| Missouri Compromise | Made Maine a free state and Missourri a slave state |
| Henry Clay | Created the Missouri Compromise |
| Wilmot Proviso | a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territories |
| House of Representatives | The North controlled the voting power based on population |
| Compromise of Eighteen Fifty | Issue over California becoming a free state |
| Fugitive Slave Act | required Northerners to turn runaway slaves in |
| Bleeding Kansas | name given to the territory of Kansas |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | a book that heightened the conflict between the North and South |
| Popular Sovereignty | rule by the people, people vote on issues |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | turned Kansas into a battleground over slavery |
| Charles Sumner | Northern Senator who was beaten |
| California | admitted as the 31st state |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom |
| United States Supreme Court | ruled African Americans were not citizens |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| Unconstitutional | Missouri Compromise was ruled to be |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States |
| Ppular Vote | Lincoln only recieved 40% |
| Secession | What Southern States threatened had Lincoln become President |
| South Carolina | The first state to secede or leave the Union |
| Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
| Confederates | what the rebels were called |
| Confederate States of America | what the rebels named their new nation |
| Protectiveness | joining the military is an example of |