| A | B |
| Henry Clay | He was the “Great Compromiser” - between North and South. |
| John C. Calhoun | Leading spokesman for the South who protested against the Tariff of Abominations. |
| Daniel Webster | He represented Northern interests – manufactures, commercial banks. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | President of the American Anti-Slavery Society 1843-1865. |
| Frederick Douglass | Ex-slave that became the leading spokesman of African-Americans in the 19th century |
| John Brown | Kill 5 proslavery settlers a Pottawatomie to revenge the burning of Lawrence |
| Abraham Lincoln | Won the presidential election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas | Won the Lincoln-Douglas debates |