| A | B |
| Frederick Douglass | Author of "The North Star" |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Author of "The Liberator" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Harriet Tubman | Leader of Underground Railroad |
| Abolish | To get rid of something |
| Nat Turner | Black leader of slave revolt |
| John Brown | Attacks Harper's Ferry |
| Slave Trade Triangle | SWIM NERA |
| Sectionalism | Differences in regions of country |
| Southern Economy | Agricultural |
| Northern Economy | Industrial |
| Nullification | State could void a federal law |
| Secession | State's attempt to leave the country |
| Tariff | Tax on imported goods |
| Henry Clay | Nicknamed "The Great Compromiser" |
| Patriotism | Love of your country |
| Nationalism | Excessive love of your country |
| Manifest Destiny | God's will for US to inhabit North America |
| CAMP | Canada, Atlantic, Mexico and Pacific |
| John Deere | Steel Plow Inventor |
| Cyrus McCormick | Mower and Reaper Inventor |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin Inventor |
| Samuel Morse | Telegraph Code Inventor |
| Missouri Compromise Terms | Missouri, Maine and Median |
| Popular sovereignty | Allow people to decide an issue by voting |
| Stephen Douglas | Introduced Kansas Nebraska Act |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Repealed Missouri Compromise |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Federal officials to help capture runaway slaves |
| Bleeding Kansas | Mini Civil War |
| Senator Charles Sumner | Beaten in Senate |