| A | B |
|---|
| Republican Party | began in 1854 with the goal to stop the spread of slavery |
| James Buchanan | Democratic candidate that won the Presidential election of 1856 |
| John C. Freemont | first Republican candidate for President, lost the election of 1856 |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme court case that declared that Congress did not have the power to regulate slavery in any territory |
| Dred Scott | enslaved person who sued for his freedom since he had lived in a free territory |
| Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Dred Scott case |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois lawyer who challenged Stephen Douglass for a senate seat in 1858 |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator and author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| John Brown | attempted to seize guns from the U.S. Army at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and lead a slave revolt |
| Mary Todd | wife of Abraham Lincoln |
