| A | B |
| Horace Mann | "Father of the American Schools" |
| Frederick Douglas | once a slave who wrote autobiography and started his own paper, The North Star |
| James Finley | Famous preacher who discussed the importance of camp meeting |
| Tappan | These brothers formed the American anti-slavery Society |
| Dorthea Dix | Helped reform prisons and set up a hospital for the mentally ill |
| Isabella VanWagener | Sojourner Truth's real name |
| Sojourner Truth | Active in the AME Church and spoke out against slavery, and was a fighter for women's rights |
| Brook Farm | Members of the community shared possessions and set aside time for social and literary activities |
| Paul Cuffe | Wealthy owner of a fleet of ships which transported volunteers back to Africa |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Opened school for the deaf in Connecticut |
| James Fortin | Petioned Congress for emancipatio, but only 1 Congressman sided with him |
| Theodore Weld | Kicked out of seminary for being too vocal against slavery; later moved to Oberlin College |
| Oberlin College | center of anti-slavery movement |
| Absalom Jones | One of the men who organized the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| AME Church | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Mother Ann Lee | Founded the Shakers who sang and danced as part of their religion, but never married |
| Grimke | Published ant-slavery pamphlets and made speeches against slavery and for women's rights |
| William Garrison | Published the newspaper, The Liberator |
| John Russman | Stared Freedom's Journal (the 1st African American Newspaper) |
| Francis Asbury | Pioneered the cicuit rider ministry |
| Samuel Howe | Taught blind students to read using braille |
| John Noyes | organized the Oneida community/believed illnes could be cured thru faith & all members married each other |