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33 Cards in this Set
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Colonel Santos Benavides
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was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War. Benavides was the highest-ranking Mexican-American soldier to serve in the Confederate military.
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Dr. William Passmore
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was an abolitionist in Pennsylvania who is best known for a legal episode challenging the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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Lt. Col. Manuel Chaves
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(Union) Nicknamed little lion; was in charge of the First New Mexican Volunteers. He led the Union troops through 16 miles of mountain wilderness to a point right on top of a Confederate Base camp filled with supplies.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee
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Confederate General who held off the Union troops form the doors of Richmond, VA for several years. On April 9, 1865 he surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA and the Civil War was officially over.
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Robert G. Shaw
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he was killed leading a regiment of black soldiers into battle during the American Civil War.
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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
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(Union) Between 1864 and 1865 he and Sherman developed a strategy that ensured victory for the north. On April 9, 1865 General Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA, and the Civil War was officially over.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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was an American reformer and writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a classic of 19th century anti-slavery literature.
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Crawford W. Long
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1842 he excised a tumor of the neck using ether anesthesia.
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Fredrick Douglas
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A fugitive slave, he became a skilled abolitionist speaker, praised for “wit, argument, sarcasm, and pathos.” He urged blacks to pursue vocational education and the vote; his print shop in Rochester, New York, was a depot on the underground.
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Harriet Tubman
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helped hundreds of American slaves escape along the secret route to freedom known as the Underground Railroad, for the next 10 years she made repeated secret trips back to Maryland, leading over 300 escaped slaves north to freedom in Canada.
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Sojourner Truth
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life as a slave and ended it as a celebrated anti-slavery activist.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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One of the earliest, most vitriolic abolitionists, he devoted full time to the cause, speaking against slavery and the Constitution that permitted it. By 1841 he was calling upon the North to secede.
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Colonel Santos Benavides
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was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War. Benavides was the highest-ranking Mexican-American soldier to serve in the Confederate military.
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Dr. William Passmore
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was an abolitionist in Pennsylvania who is best known for a legal episode challenging the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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Lt. Col. Manuel Chaves
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(Union) Nicknamed little lion; was in charge of the First New Mexican Volunteers. He led the Union troops through 16 miles of mountain wilderness to a point right on top of a Confederate Base camp filled with supplies.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee
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Confederate General who held off the Union troops form the doors of Richmond, VA for several years. On April 9, 1865 he surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA and the Civil War was officially over.
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Robert G. Shaw
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he was killed leading a regiment of black soldiers into battle during the American Civil War.
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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
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(Union) Between 1864 and 1865 he and Sherman developed a strategy that ensured victory for the north. On April 9, 1865 General Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA, and the Civil War was officially over.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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was an American reformer and writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a classic of 19th century anti-slavery literature.
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Crawford W. Long
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1842 he excised a tumor of the neck using ether anesthesia.
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Fredrick Douglas
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A fugitive slave, he became a skilled abolitionist speaker, praised for “wit, argument, sarcasm, and pathos.” He urged blacks to pursue vocational education and the vote; his print shop in Rochester, New York, was a depot on the underground.
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Harriet Tubman
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helped hundreds of American slaves escape along the secret route to freedom known as the Underground Railroad, for the next 10 years she made repeated secret trips back to Maryland, leading over 300 escaped slaves north to freedom in Canada.
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Nat Turner
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Denmark Vesey
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Sojourner Truth
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life as a slave and ended it as a celebrated anti-slavery activist.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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One of the earliest, most vitriolic abolitionists, he devoted full time to the cause, speaking against slavery and the Constitution that permitted it. By 1841 he was calling upon the North to secede.
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Gabriel Prosser
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John Brown
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Joel Chandler Harris
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author Uncle Remus saying and songs.
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Henry W. Grady
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editor of paper, coined the term "New South".
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Gen. William T. Sherman
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(Union) Between 1864 and 1865 he helped develop a strategy that ensured a victory for the north. He is famous for (Sherman’s March to the Sea).
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Robert Toombs
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Secretary of State for the Confederate States.
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Alexander Stephens
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Vice Pres. for the Confederate States.
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