| A | B |
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| Nat Turner | Slave whose revolt raised white fears and led to increased restrictions on slaves |
| Frederick Douglass | Ex-slave who work for abolition through his writings and speeches |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist and editor of The Liberator newspaper |
| John Brown | Abolitionist whose raid on Harper's Ferry increased southern distrust of the North |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leader in the womens suffrage and abolitonist movement |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | Commanding general of the southern forces during the Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commanding general of the Northern forces at the end of the Civil War |
| William Sherman | Northern general whose march from Atlanta to the sea destroyed all in its path |
| John Wilkes Boothe | Actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln whose southern sympathies led to his impeachment |
| George McClellan | Northern general fired after winning the battle of Antietam for not pursuing Lee |
| Stonewall Jackson | Southern general known for bravery and leadership |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | President whose election was a result of the Compromise of 1877 in which military control of the south was ended |
| Henry Bessemer | Developer of a process to produce steel cheaply and easily |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the electric light and power |
| Alexander G. Bell | Inventor of the telephone |
| Wilbur and Orville Write | Inventors of the first motor powered airplane |
| Henry Ford | Developer of the "assembly line," a method of mass production which produced cars cheaply |
| Andrew Carnegie | Rich industrialist who controlled US Steel |
| William and Cornelius Vanderbilt | Controlled most of the Railroads in the Northeast |
| John D. Rockefeller | Rich industrialist who controlled Standard Oil |
| JP Morgan | Banker and finacier, developed trusts |
| Eugene Debs | Railroad union organizer and socialist |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President who fought monopolies and trusts, established national parks, and organized the building of the Panama Canal |
| WEB DuBois | Leader of the Niagara Movement and the NAACP who fought for full civil rights for African Americans |
| Booker T. Washington | Tuskeegee University President and activist for African American job training and education |
| Ida B. Wells | Newspaper editor and activist against lynching and Jim Crow Laws |
| Homer Plessy | Activist whose refusal to sit in the black section of the train led to the supreme court decision that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional |
| Harriet Tubman | Leader of many slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| Sojourner Truth | Aboliton activist and speaker |
| Susan B. Anthony | Suffragist |
| Jane Adams | Activist who fought for better conditions for poor immigrants |
| Samuel Gompers | Leader of the American Federation of Labor |
