| A | B |
|---|
| Fugitive Slave Law | all citizens must help catch runaway slaves |
| John Brown | abolitionist who caused sectionalism to increase |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | fictional novel about slavery |
| John C. Calhoun | presented the South's viewpoint regarding slavery in the Mexican Cession |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States |
| Free Soil Party | wanted to stop the spread of slavery in the West |
| sectionalism | caring about your own region instead of the country as a whole |
| fugitive | word used to describe a runaway slave |
| Wilmot Proviso | would have banned slavery in lands won from Mexico |
| Senator John Crittenden | wanted to extend Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific |
| Missouri Compromise | kept the number of free and slave states equal |
| Lincoln's election | caused many southerners to want to secede |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act and Compromise of 1850 | applied principle of popular sovereignty regarding slavery |
| Dred Scott decision | allowed slavery in all territories |
| John Fremont | Republican candidate for president in 1856 |
