| A | B |
|---|
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave; wrote autobiography |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of Supreme Court; ruled against Dred Scott |
| Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser; wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| John Brown | abolitionist; murdered people in Kansas; attacked Harper's Ferry |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| James Buchanan | Democrat; elected President in 1856 |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois; wrote Kansas-Nebraska Act; favored popular sovereignty |
| Dred Scot | a slave; sued his master for freedom |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican; elected President in 1860 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
