| A | B |
|---|
| popular sovereignty | allowing the population to vote on an issue |
| Harpers Ferry | location of the U.S. arsenal |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| temperance | movement to ban alcohol |
| abolition | movement to end slavery |
| Jefferson Davis | becomes president of the Confederate States of America |
| William Lloyd Garrison | editor of the anti-slavery newspaper |
| Fort Sumter | location where the Civil War officially begins |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one's own state or region |
| spiritual | songs sung by slaves that often had codes for escape |
| South Carolina | first state to leave the United States |
| Dorothea Dix | helped the mentally ill and reformed prisons |
| secede | to leave the union |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for freedom, but the Supreme Court denied |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | law that allowed the people to vote on slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who became a famous speaker against slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | famous conductor who helped over 300 slaves escape |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | fictional book that described life of slaves in the south that caused tension |
| The Liberator | famous anti-slavery newspaper |
| Bleeding Kansas | mini civil war that broke out due to illegal voting |
| Fugitive Slave Act | made escaping slavery more dangerous |
| California | state that came in free under the compromise 1850 |
| John Brown | raided a U.S. arsenal to incite slave revolt |
