| A | B |
| John Brown | radical who launched raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Grimke sisters | abolitionist sisters from SC |
| Harriet Tubman | lead enslaved people to freedom |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Ignited the civil war with her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Frederick Douglas | former slave who escaped to the north and who was able to read and write |
| William Lloyd Garrison | founded the antislavery newspaper , the Liberator |
| Nat Turner | enslaved minister who led the best known slave revolt |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | under this act any master could accuse any one as an escaped slave |
| Susan B. Anthony | Argued that the 14th and 15th amendments applied to women |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the first womens rights convevtion in Seneca Falls, New York in july 1848 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a gathering of women reformers marked the beginning of an organized women's movement |
| Lucretia Mott | organized seneca falls convention with the help of Elizabeth Stanton |
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement in 1820 that stated Maine was a free state and Missouri was a slave state |
| Compromise of 1850 | Cali(free state), New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona(popular sovereignty) |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | repealed the Missouri Compromise, popular sovereignty |