| A | B |
| abolition | getting rid of slavery |
| specialized | focus is on making one product |
| compromise | both sides give a little to agree |
| succession | leaving the Union |
| fugitive slave Laws | escapees to be returned by law |
| radical | person who wants immediate change |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Soujourner Truth | "Aint I a woman?" speech giver |
| Abraham Lincoln | issued Emancipation Proclamation |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine was made a free state |
| John C. Calhoun | Southern senator who wanted succession |
| Nat Turner | early slave rebellion leader |
| Preston Brooks | beat Northern senator with a cane |
| John Brown | fought for slaves in Virginia and Kansas |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published the Liberator |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | allowed for popular sovereignty |
| Harriet Tubman | underground railroad conductor |
| Stephen Douglas | 1860 leader of the Democratic party |
| George B. McClellan | 1864 leader of the Democratic party |
| Quakers | abolitionist religious group |
| Compromise of 1850 | California was made a free state |