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Unit 4- Civil War & Reconstruction PEOPLE
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09/24/2012

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Robert E. Lee
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Brilliant general of Confederate forces during the Civil War
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Harriet Beecher. Stowe
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Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", contributed to anti-slavery feeling in North before the civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Sixteenth President. Effective leadership during civil war and Emancipation Proclamation declaring end of slavery.
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Dred Scott
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Tried to sew for his freedom, but it was overrulled because slaves are not citizens.
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Jerfferson Davis
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President of the Confederate states of America. Ordered attack on fort sumpter(first battle).
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John Brown
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Abolistionist crusader who massacred pro-slavery settlers in Kansas before the Civil War, hoped to inspier slave revolt.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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White leader of radical abolition movement based in Boston.
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William T. Sherman
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Union general in the Civil War
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Harriet Tubman
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"Conductor" on the underground railroad, helped slaves escape to freedom before the civil war.
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Fredrick Douglass
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African Amercian abolitionist leader who spoke eloquently for abolition in the US and Britian before the civil war
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate general known for his swist strikes against the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Eighteenth President of the US commander of Union forces who accepted Lee's surrender
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