| A | B |
| Popular Sovereignty | the people decide (if there will be slavery in a territory or not) |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| Suffrage | movement to gain the right to vote for women |
| Sectionalism | loyalty to one's region or section of the nation |
| Secession | to break away from the union |
| Harriet Tubman | most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| John Brown | Radical Abolitionist; "Bleeding Kansas" Raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Abraham Lincoln | Union president during the Civil War, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General |
| Clara Barton | Nurse, "Angel of the Battlefield", founded Red Cross |
| William Sherman | "total war" approach, led a "march to the sea" destroying infrastructure and bringing North closer to victory |