Uncle Tom’s Cabin Popular antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Free-Soil Party Formed when presidential candidates in 1848 election took no stand on slavery in the territories

Confederate States of America Formed in 1861 by states that had seceded

Dred Scott Decision Supreme Court ruled Congress could not ban slavery in any territories

The Liberator Newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison that called for immediate emancipation for slaves

Abraham Lincoln Earned a national reputation through a series seven debates

American Slavery As It Is Influential antislavery publication written by Angelina Grimke and Theodore Weld

Fort Sumter Attacked by Confederate forces to start the Civil War

Kansas-Nebraska Act Led to violent confrontations between antislavery and proslavery forces in Kansas

Missouri Compromise Retained balance between slave and free states

sectionalism A strong allegiance to a particular region of the country

Republican Party New party formed on an antislavery platform in 1854

abolitionists People who worked to bring an end to slavery

John Brown Led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Kansas-Nebraska Act Allowed settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery

Preston Brooks Proslavery Representative who brutally attacked an antislavery Senator

Sojourner Truth Escaped from slavery and dedicated herself to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements

South Carolina Voted to secede from the United States after the election of 1860

Compromise of 1850 Five-point plan presented by Henry Clay and passed as separate proposals

Abraham Lincoln Stated in his First Inaugural Address that Southern states would not be allowed to secede