| A | B |
| WILMOT PROVISO | PROPOSED NO SLAVERY IN TERRITORY GAINED IN THE MEXICAN WAR |
| FREE SOIL PARTY | FREE SOIL,FREE LABOR,FREE MEN,FREE SPEECH |
| COMPROMISE OF 1850 | CALIFORNIA ENTERS AS A FREE STATE |
| HENRY CLAY | THE GREAT COMPROMISER |
| STEVEN DOUGLAS | DEFEATED LINCOLN FOR THE SENATE |
| JEFFERSON DAVIS | NEW LEADERSHIP FROM THE SOUTH |
| HARRIET BEECHER STOWE | UNCLE TOM'S CABIN |
| POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY | PEOPLE IN A TERRRORY DECIDE THE SLAVERY ISSUE BY VOTE |
| REPULICAN PARTY | COMBINED FREE SOILERS AND ANTISLAVEY DEMOCRATS |
| James Buchanan | defeated John C. Freemont in 1856 |
| John C. Freemont | "The Pathfinder" |
| Charles Sumner | Peter Brooks used a cane to assult him |
| Dred Scott | Slave that said he was a free man |
| John Brown | Killed five men at Pottawatomie Creek |
| "Bleeding Kanas" | 200 killed In This Territory |
| Kanas-Nebraska Act | People Decide to be free or slave by voting in the Territory |
| Constitutional Union Party | John Bell |
| Robert Anderson | Commander at Fort Sumter |
| Jefferson Davis | President to the Confederacy |
| John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democratic Party |