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16 Cards in this Set
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***Abraham Lincoln
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Was elected president twice. He was for the union, and did not like slavery. He was eventually assassinated on April 14, 1865 at the Ford’s Theater.
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***John Brown
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He wanted to free slaves. His plan was to raid a gun shop in the south, and give the guns to the slaves. His plan failed, and he was hung. He was known as a martyr in the North, and as a terrorist in the South.
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***William T. Sherman
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He wanted to get rid of the CSA, so he committed Total War. He destroyed everything in his path from Tennessee to Georgia.
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**James K. Polk
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He ran for president, promising to put a border between British Columbia, and Oregon.
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**Jefferson Davis
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Led the Confederates.
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Andrew Johnson
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Lincolns running mate.
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Eli Whitney
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He invented the Cotton Gin. It made it easier to remove the cotton seeds. He wanted slavery to stay.
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**Robert E. Lee
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Led the Confederates.
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**Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It talked about the evils of slavery. This changed the North’s view on slavery. The South said it was full of lies.
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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**Harriet Tubman
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Was a slave, but escaped. She helped other slaves escape under the “underground railroad”.
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Clara Barton
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Nurse for the civil war, and created the Red Cross.
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**Stephen F. Austin
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Tried to work out differences between Texas and Mexico. Wrote a letter to them, and was arrested for it.
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Frederick Douglass
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He was the best known African American slave. He escaped when he was a child. He taught himself how to read and write. He also lectured around the world about the horror of slavery.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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General in chief. He wanted a more aggressive war.
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Sam Houston
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Commander in chief to claim Texas’s independence.
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