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14 Cards in this Set
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Roger B. Taney
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The Chief Justice who declared in the Dred Scott decision that African Americans were not citizens
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Abraham Lincoln
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The Republican who won the presidency in 1860
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John Brown
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On October 16,1859, with 18 followers-13 whites and 5 blacks-captured the Harpers Ferry arsenal.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Supported popular sovereignty as a way to settle the issue of slavery
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Dorothea Dix
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She devoted her life to try to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.
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Sojourner Truth
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She was a former slave who became an abolitionist and worked for women's rights.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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led the Siege of Vicksburg.
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Clara Barton
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organized other women to help
with the war effort by washing clothes and cooking for the Union soldiers. |
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Horace Mann
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He was the head of the first state board of education.
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Harriet Tubman
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She was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Elizabeth Cady Staton
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decided it was time to demanded equality for women
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nativist
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a person who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
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