| A | B |
|---|
| Popular Sovereignty | People vote directly on issues rather than have an elected official decide |
| Secede | Withdraw or Leave |
| Fugitive | Runaway enslaved people |
| Henry Clay | Know as the Great Compromiser for his roll in the Missouri Compromise |
| John C. Calhoun | Was against California entering the Union as a Free State |
| Daniel Webster | Massachusetts Senator in favor of compromise. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Propaganda | False or misleading information that is given to further a cause |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois Senator who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| John Brown | Anti-Slavery settler or led attacks on people that were in favor of Slavery. |
| Dred Scott | Enslaved Person who sued for his Freedom and lost, this led to an important Supreme Court Case. |
| Roger B. Taney | Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Northern who spoke out against the Dred Scott decision. |
| Civil War | War between opposing groups of citizens of the same country. |
