civil war people Flashcards
(14 cards)
Henry Clay
He suggested the Missouri compromise
Dred Scott
a slave whos owner died so he asked the supreme court to free him because he was from a free state but they said no
Frederick Douglas
a former slave who wrote and spoke about abolition
Sojourner Truth
a writer and traveler who spoke about abolition
Harriet Tubman
a leader on the underground railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
Abraham Lincoln
President of the union
Jefferson Davis
president of the confederacy
Robert E Lee
general of the confederate army
Ulysses S Grant
general of the union army
Clara Barton
union nurse aka Angel of The Battlefield
William Tecumseh Sherman
union general destructively marched from Atlanta to Savannah
John Wilkes Booth
assassin of President Abe Lincoln
Lewis Hayden
Former slave who had a safe house in Boston