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18 Cards in this Set
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David Walker |
He wrote and published ¨An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World¨ |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
He was he editor of the newspaper ¨The Liberator¨ |
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Frederick Douglas |
African-American escaped slave that was a social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
She is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Henry Clay |
An American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator |
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James Buchanon |
He was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. |
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Stephen Douglas |
He was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. |
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Charles Sumner |
American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. |
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Preston Brooks |
American politician and Member of the US House of Representative from South Carolina. Beat a guy with his cane. |
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Dred Scott |
An enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom. His case made it to the Supreme Court. |
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John Brown |
An American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the idea of pro-slavery. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
An American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States. Lead the Union to defeat the Confederacy. |
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Robert E. Lee |
An American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
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Stonewall Jackson |
A Confederate general during the American Civil War. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
The 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. |
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Clara Barton |
A pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War |
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John Wilkes Booth |
An American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington |
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Andrew Johnson |
An American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States |
