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18 Cards in this Set
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David Walker |
A freed African-American who publlished the ¨Colored Citizens of the World¨; participant of the abolition movement in the early 1800s |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
A white New England journalist, who published ¨The Liberator¨ in the newspaper from 1831-1865 |
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Frederick Douglass |
A fugitive slave that bought his freedom; most famous abolitionist; attends one of Garrisons meetings in 1841 and becomes an important speaker. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
The author of ¨Uncle Toms Cabin¨ in 1852 which had a shocking reaction from the north and an angry reaction from the south |
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Henry Clay |
An American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. |
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James Buchanon |
The 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War |
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Stephen Douglas |
An American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act; US Representative and Senator |
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Charles Sumner |
An American politician and senator from Massachusetts; workered to destroy the Confederacy |
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Preston Brooks |
A fervent advocate of slavery and states' rights. He is primarily remembered for his May 22, 1856 violent assault uponabolitionist Senator Charles Sumner (Free Soil-Massachusetts), with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate |
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Dred Scott |
An African-American slave who unsuccessfully sued his masters wife for freedom of him and his family; Dred Scot vs. Standford |
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John Brown |
An American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States |
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Abraham Lincoln |
The 16th president of the United States who declared war on the confederacy to abolish slavery |
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Robert E. Lee |
An American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865 |
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John Wilkes Booth |
An American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. |
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Stonewall Jackson |
A Confederate general during theAmerican Civil War, and the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Was the most acclaimed Union general during the American Civil War and was twice elected President |
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Clara Barton |
Was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk |
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Andrew Johnson |
The 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
