| A | B |
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| Fort Sumter | where the Civil War started |
| Harper's Ferry | site of John Brown's Raid |
| John Breckenridge | presidential candidate of the southern Democrats in the 1860 election |
| John Bell | presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Robert Anderson | Union commander at Fort Sumter |
| Charles Sumner | abolitionist senator who was attacked on the floor of the Senate |
| Border Ruffians | pro slavery gangs from Missouri who battled anti slavery settlers in Kansas |
| John Brown | abolitionist who murdered pro slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom |
| Stephen Douglas | the "Little Giant" |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John C. Calhoun | former vice president who was the "voice of the south" in the Senate |
| Zachary Taylor | hero of the Mexican War who won the 1848 Presidential election |
| Henry Clay | the Great Compromiser |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| civil war | war between people in the same country |
| fugitive | runaway |
| popular sovereignty | control by the people |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the country as a whole |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Anthony Burns | fugitive slave whom the citizens of Boston attempted to protect |
| Simon Legree | fictional slave owner in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom | fictional slave in the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
