Civil War and Reconstruction

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Civil War and Reconstruction
Confederate Battle Song
Union Battle Song
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Frederick Douglass

• 1817-1895
• Former slave who was a writer, editor, and
  abolitionist
• North Star newspaper

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Lucretia Mott

• 1793-1880
• American abolitionist and supporter of womens
  rights

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Sojourner Truth

• 1797?-1998
• Abolitionist
• Womens rights leader
• Spoke at Seneca Falls Convention Aint I a
  woman?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• 1815-1902
• Womens suffrage leader
• Helped organize the first womens rights movement
  in 1848

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Harriet Tubman

• 1820?-1913
• Abolitionist
• Was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
• Led more than 300 slaves to freedom
• Known as Moses

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• 1811-1896
• Author of Uncle Toms Cabin, which exposed
  cruelties of slavery

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Nat Turner

• 1800 -1831
• Leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia

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John Brown

• 1800-1859
• Abolitionist
• Believed in the use of force to oppose slavery
• Led the raid on Harpers Ferry and was hanged as
  a traitor in 1859

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William Lloyd Garrison

• 1805 -1879
• Journalist
• Founder of the anti-slavery newspaper, The
  Liberator

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Susan B. Anthony

• 1820 -1906
• Leader in the womens suffrage movement

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Abraham Lincoln

• 1809 -1865
• 16th president of the United States during the
  Civil War
• Signed Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
• Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years
  ago

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Jefferson Davis

• 1808 1889
• President of the Confederacy during the civil War
• Former U.S. senator from Mississippi

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Ulysses S. Grant

• 1822 1885
• Commander of the Union (north) forces in the
  Civil War
• 18th President of the U.S. (1869 1877)

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Robert E. Lee

• 1807 1870
• General from Virginia
• Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil
  War
• Lincoln wanted him to serve as commander of the
  Union forces

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William T. Sherman

• 1820 1821
• Union general in Civil War
• Atlanta March to Sea in 1864 helped Union
  defeat the Confederacy
• Total War

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Thomas Stonewall Jackson

• 1824 1863
• General in the confederacy with several early
  victories
• Stood with his troops like a stone wall at
  Battle of Bull Run in 1861

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Andrew Johnson

• 1808 1875
• 17th president of the U.S. (1865 1869)
• Took office following Lincolns assassination
  during Reconstruction

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John Wilkes Boothe

• Actor who supported the Confederacy
• 26 years old when he assassinated Lincoln on
  April 15, 1865
• Shot and killed when he refused to surrender
  after being found in a Virginia barn

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Clara Barton

• 1821 1912
• Civil War nurse
• Founder of the American Red Cross
• Nicknamed Angel of the Battlefield

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Matthew Brady

• 1823? 1896
• Civil War photographer