| A | B |
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| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the country as a whole |
| popular sovereignty | control by the people |
| fugitive | runaway |
| civil war | war between people in the same country |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| Henry Clay | the Great Compromiser |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War |
| Stephen Douglas | senator from Illinois, known as the "Little Giant" |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom |
| John Brown | abolitionist who led a raid on a government gun arsenal |
| Border Ruffians | pro slavery gangs from Missouri who battled anti slavery settlers in Kansas |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| April 12, 1861 | date that marks the beginning of the Civil War |
| Missouri Compromise | law that decided issue of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase |
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | law requiring all citizens to return fugitive slaves to their owners in the South |
| Harper's Ferry, Virginia | site of John Brown's Raid |
| Fort Sumter | place where the Civil War began |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the United States |
| Confederate States of America | new country formed by the seven southern states that broke away from the Union |
| Daniel Webster | congressman from the North who supported a compromise including a fugitive slave law because he worried that the southern states would secede and a civil war would start |
| Martin Van Buren | former President who ran for the office again in 1848 as the candidate from the new Free Soil Party |
| Zachary Taylor | hero of the Mexican War who won the 1848 election as the Whig Presidential candidate |
| John C. Calhoun | former vice president who was the "voice of the south" in the Senate and warned that the southern states may leave the union if the north did not agree to a fugitive slave law |
| Anthony Burns | fugitive slave whom the citizens of Boston attempted to protect |
| Charles Sumner | abolitionist senator who was attacked on the floor of the Senate |
| John Crittenden | Kentucky congressman who tried to save the union and keep the southern states from seceding by proposing that the line established in the Missouri compromise be extended to the Pacific Ocean |
| Free Soil Party | political party established in 1848 by members of the Democratic and Whig parties who wanted to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| Republican Party | political party established in 1856 by former Free Soilers, northern Democrats and anti slavery Whigs who wanted to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| Simon Legree | fictional slave owner in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin who was especially mean and brutal to his slaves |
| Uncle Tom | fictional slave in the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Robert Anderson | United States major in command of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the Civil War |
| John Bell | presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election who wanted to keep the Union together |
| John Breckenridge | presidential candidate of the southern Democrates in the 1860 election |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican candidate in teh 1860 Presidential election |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democrats' candidate in the 1860 Presidential election |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | law proposed by Stephen Douglas dividing the Nebraska territory into two parts and deciding the slavery issue in those territories by popular sovereignty |
| Compromise of 1850 | compromise worked out when California wanted to join the Union as a free state |
| Wilmot Proviso | proposed law that popular sovereignty would decide the slavery issue in all new western territories |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision that said that slaves were property and therefore had no right to file a lawsuit and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because Congress had no right to make a law banning slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | nickname given to Kansas territory because of the bloody clashes between pro slavery and anti slavery groups |
