| A | B |
|---|
| General Thomas Jackson | nicknamd "Stonewall" because of his bravery at the Battle of Bull Run |
| General Beauregard | Confederate general at Bull Run |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States (the Union) |
| Stephen Douglas | wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and ran against Lincoln |
| Nat Turner | led a rebellion of slaves in 1831 that killed 57 people |
| John Brown | awhite abolitionist who seized an arsenal in 1859 and planned to give the guns to slaves |
| Harriet Tubman | a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Henry Clay | the Great Compromiser |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | increased the need for slaves |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri would be allowed to join U.S. as a slave state; Maine would join as a slave state |
| Compromise of 1850 | California joined as a free state;New Mexico and Utah would decide for themselves whether to be free or slave |
| secession | withdrawal |
| slave codes | laws that said what slaves could not do |
