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18 Cards in this Set
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David Walker |
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. |
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Frederick Douglas |
An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
An American abolitionist and author. Best known for novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. |
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Henry Clay |
An American lawyer, 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. |
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Charles Sumner |
An academic lawyer, leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans. Working to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and keep on good terms with Europe. |
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Preston Brooks |
An American politician and Member of the US House of Representative from South Carolina. |
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Dred Scott |
An enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision". |
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John Brown |
Raided on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of the U.S. Heissued the Emancipation Proclamation that eclared forever free those slaves within 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 |
Confederate general during the American Civil War. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
18th President of the U.S. Commanding General for U.S. Army. Worked closely with Abraham Lincoln leading 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, a teacher, and patent clerk. |
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John Wilkes Booth |
An American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln because of his attempt to kidnap Abraham. |
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Andrew Johnson |
An American statesman who served as the 7th President of the U.S. |
