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Guy in Supreme Court

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John Marshall

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Black lady who helped escaped slaves

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Harriet Tubman

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This person made sooooooo many compromises

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Henry Clay

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President from MA who made a higher tariff and was against slavery

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John Quincy Adams

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Tough general man guy who was elected in 1832

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Andrew Jackson

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He got the tariff reduced by 10%

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Henry Clay (the compromiser who just had to be liked by everyone)

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He has a city in Liberia named after him

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James Monroe (the city’s called Monrovia)

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This lady’s father was a preacher and she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin which talked about how cruel slavery was and it was a huge seller in the North and Britain and increased anti slavery

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Harriet (like the Tub man)
Beacher (this reminds me of a whale)
Stowe (stove?)

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He started the American Anti Society of Slavery

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William Lloyd Garrison

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He was an escaped salad and an excellent speaker

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Fredrick Douglas

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She was a black lady against slavery (no duh) and a huge spokeswomen for women’s right (also a woman)

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Sojourner Truth

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He rose up and killed 65 white people and then failed and 56 slaves were killed

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Nat Turner (Nats keep landing on me as I type this because I’m outside on a rock but I keep swatting them away so you could say they’re failing like he did)

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He offered $120 million dollars to Spain for Cuba and upset the north because Cuba has lots of slaves

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Franklin Pierce

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Liked popular sovereignty and was a democrat

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Stephen Douglas (from Illinois)

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He was an insane abolitionist who hacked people to death

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John Brown (like the Chicago Browns where conveniently John was from)

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Was beat with a cane when he offended Brook’s cousin (I also have in my notes that during this discussion Jeffery said “go for the knees when you beat someone”)

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Charles Sumner ( he was an abolitionist)

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17
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Beat Sumner with a cane

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Prescott Brooks

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Dude who built cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

19
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“Owner” took him into a free state and he claimed he was free

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Dred Scott (did you ever notice how it sounds like dreadlocks?)

20
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Dude in Supreme Court in charge of Dred Scott’s case- ruled that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere

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Rodger Taney

21
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He challenged Stephen Douglas like 7 times and beat him in the 18?? Election

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Abe Lincoln

22
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Started the Harper’s Ferry Raid (capture guns for slaves and have a big rebellion) but it failed and he was hung

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John Brown

23
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Who is the president of the confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

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Secretary of State

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William Seward

25
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Secretary of Treasury

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Salmon P Chase

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Attorney general

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Edward Bates

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Secretary of war for Lincoln

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Edwin Stanton

28
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Fought in battle of bull run and won, shot by his own troops

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Stonewall Jackson

29
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In charge of Union army but didn’t like to attack

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George Mclouain

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Most important confederate general, won battle of bull run, surrendered April 9th

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Robert E. Lee

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Won battle of Gettysburg for Union

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George Mead

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Won battle of Vicksburg for Union and was in charge of the army of the platonic

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Ulysses S. Grant

33
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Union general who destroys Georgia and captures Atlanta in 1864

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William Sherman

34
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Had four kids who all died, suffered mental trauma

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Mary Todd Lincoln

35
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Killed Lincoln

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John Wilkins Booth

36
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Wrote a historical fiction about life in the south (it was very pro south)

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Margaret Mitchell

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People I haven’t mentioned

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John bell
John Breckenridge
John Fremont

38
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Guy who replaced Lincoln and was southern

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Andrew Johnson

39
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Name of president before me (Lincoln) he was a southern sympathizer before civil war

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James Buchanan

40
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Republican radical from Pennsylvania

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Thaddeus Stevens

41
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Name of 1876 election winner

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Hayes

42
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Was in charge of the 54 Massachusetts and attacked fort Wagner

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Robert Gould Shaw

43
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Doctor who cured John Wilkes Booth

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Samuel Mudd

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