CIVIL WAR LEADERS: (Click on the names to get their information)

Ø      ABRAHAM LINCOLN

--President of the US

--opposed the spread of slavery

--issued the Emancipation Proclamation

--determined to preserve the Union—by force if necessary

--believed the US was one nation, not a collection of independent states

--wrote the Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Ø      JEFFERSON DAVIS

--President of the Confederate States of America

Ø      ULYSSES S. GRANT

--General of the Union army that defeated Lee (at Appomatox, VA)

Ø      ROBERT E. LEE

--Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate)

--Offered command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war but chose not to fight against Virginia (his home state that had seceded)

--Opposed secession but did not believe that the Union should be held together by force

--Urged Southerners to accept defeat at end of the war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to fight on

Ø      THOMAS “STONEWALL” JACKSON

--Skilled Confederate General from VA

Ø      FREDERICK DOUGLASS

--A former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist

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Ø      Isabel Sojourner Truth

Ø      Eli Whiteny

Ø      Susan B. Anthony

Ø      Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Ø      Harriet Tubman

Ø      William Lloyd Garrison

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