| A | B |
| Temperance | movement to end alcohol abuse and the problems associated with it |
| Suffrage | movement to gain the right to vote for women |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| Education | movement to prepare children to be good citizens through public schools |
| Mental Health & Prison Reform | movement to provide treatment for the mentally ill and more sanitary and humane jails for criminals |
| Second Great Awakening | religious movement that led to efforts to reform society |
| Harriet Tubman | the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglass | a runaway slave who became a well known speaker and edited an antislavery newspaper called the North Star |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a white abolitionist who published his newspaper, The Liberator |
| John Brown | radical white abolitionist who supported slave revolts and believed violence had to be used to end slavery |
| Nat Turner | a black minister who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 |
| Harriet Beech Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, anti-slavery book that exposed the horrors of slavery |
| Underground Railroad | secret network to help slaves escape to freedom |
| Fugitive Slave Act | made it illegal to help a runaway slave, slaves had to get to Canada or Mexico to be truly free |
| Jerry Rescue | In 1851 people of Syracuse helped fugitive slave escape to Canada |
| Susan B. Anthony | suffragette arrested for illegal voting because she was a women |
| North Economy | based on industry and manufacturing |
| South Economy | based on "King Cotton"; a long-term cause of the Civil War |