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

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

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

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

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

6. Abraham Lincoln Earned a national reputation through a series seven debates

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

8. Fort Sumter Attacked by Confederate forces to start the Civil War

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

10. Missouri Compromise Retained balance between slave and free states

11. sectionalism A strong allegiance to a particular region of the country

12. Republican Party New party formed on an antislavery platform in 1854

13. abolitionists People who worked to bring an end to slavery

14. John Brown Led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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

16. Preston Brooks Proslavery Representative who brutally attacked an antislavery Senator

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

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

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

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