American minister 

Convinced the British that building ships like the Alabama would eventually go against them and that the British should stop building them

(the Alabama was a ship that sank 64 union ships)

helped transform nursing from a lowerly service to a respected profession

this also opened up another major sphere of employment for women in the postwar era

• New York senator, spokesman for young northern radicals
• strong antislaveryite, said that Christian legislators must obey God's moral law as well as man's mundane law
• Would have won the nomination for the Repubilcan party in 1856 if he would've been a little more confident

every territory not controlled by the North

"He freed them when he couldn't, and didn't where he could."