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| Copperheads | Southern sympathizers in the North who were opposed to the war, |
| Popular sovereignty | said that the people of the territory should decide the issue of slavery, championed by Stephen Douglas |
| May Ann Pittman | One of the women prisoners at Alton |
| Griffin Frost | He was one of the Confederate prisoners at Alton’s prison. He kept a journal. |
| Alton | The first state prison in Illinois, reopened during the Civil War |
| Captain James Stokes | He was in charge of the mission to move arms and ammunition out of the federal arsenal in St. Louis to Illinois |
| Captain Nathaniel Lyon | The commander of Union forces at the federal arsenal in St. Louis sent a message to the Illinois governor that the arms and ammunition be moved to Springfield, Illinois. |
| Star of the West | an unarmed merchant ship sent by the Lincoln administration to send reinforcements to Fort Sumter. |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown’s poorly planned and executed raid on the federal arsenal in Virginia |
| Freeport Doctrine | Douglas's response to Lincoln posing the question whether popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision could be reconciled. He said it could. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | 7 cities in Illinois saw thes |
| Lecompton Constitution | The pro-slavery constitution convention leaders in Kansas added an article to their constitution that prohibited further importation of slavery but preserved slavery already present in the territory. |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case |
| Dred Scott | a Missouri slave who sued for his freedom, his case made it to the Supreme Court |
| John Brown | an abolitionist whose attack on five pro-slavery settlers sparked a full-on guerrilla war in Kansas |
| Preston Brooks | House member and Butler’s cousin, entered the Senate chamber and beat Sumner at his desk with a cane. |
| Charles Sumner | gave a speech in the Senate, railing against the “rape” of Kansas by the South. In the speec |
| Lawrence | The free-soil settlers in Kansas began to arm themselves in this town. |
| Republicans | new coalition of Free Soilers, anti-slavery Whigs and anti-Nebraska Democrats. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | one of nine Civil War generals to have come from Galena, Illinois. |
