| A | B |
| Nat Turner | led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831 |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wrote the Liberator |
| Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist speaker and writer:escaped from slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist who helped on the Underground Railroad |
| Sarah Grimke | Southerner who became an abolitionist speaker |
| Lucretia Mott | Abolitionist and leader in the women's right movement |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Abolitionist and women's right leader |
| Sojourner Truth | An escaped slave who spoke out for women's rights |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led a revolt at Harpers Ferry, VA |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Winfield Scott | Commander of the Union Army at the beginning of the war |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate army |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general who defeated the Union army in the Battle of Bull Run |
| George Pickett | Confederate general who led a charge during the Battle of Gettysburg |
| George McClellan | Union commander who was a brilliant organizer of troops |
| Clara Barton | Nurse who started the American Red Cross |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the Union army who became president in 1868 |
| Matthew Brady | A photographer during the Civil War |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who destroyed much of Georgia |
| Dorothea Dix | Superintendent for women nurses |
| Johnny Reb | Name given to gray-uniformed Southern soldier |
| Billy Yank | Name given to blue-uniformed soldier |
| General Beauregard | Confederate general who successfully attacked Fort Sumter |