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20 Cards in this Set
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David Walker |
African American abolitionist (free) |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. |
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Frederick Douglas |
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
abolitionist, wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Henry Clay |
Politician, known as Great Compromiser (helped with great ((missouri) compromise) |
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James Buchanon |
15th President (right before civil war started) |
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Stephen Douglas |
poilitician, created Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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Charles Sumner |
senator from Massachusetts, beat by Brooks (confederate) with a cane |
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Preston Brooks |
senator from South Carolina, beat Sumner over secede |
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Dred Scott |
Sued for his freedom, won in Federal Court but lost in Supreme Court |
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John Brown |
tried to start an uprising with the slaves, but failed |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president, served during civil war, Emancipation Proclamation (13th amendment) |
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Robert E. Lee |
Confederate general |
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Stonewall Jackson |
Confederate general (2nd best to Robert E. Lee) |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
General during civil war (18th POTUS) |
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Clara Barton |
started the American Red Cross |
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John Wilkes Booth |
assassinated Abe Lincoln |
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Andrew Johnson |
Served as president after Lincoln was assasssinated |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of Confederate states |
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Harriet Tubman |
abolitionist, spy for US |
