Quarter 3 Flashcards
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War president in 1860, emancipation proclamation freed slaves in rebellious states
Andrew Jackson
president after Lincoln assassination in 1865
Robert E Lee
general of Confederate Army
Henry Clay
The Great Compromiser; house speaker and secretary of state
John Brown
abolitionist who used violence
Dred Scott
black man who sued for freedom and lost
Jefferson Davis
president of Confederate States
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin author
General William Sherman
general that marched from Atlanta to Savannah
Ulysses S. Grant
union general in Civil War
William Lloyd Garrison
1st liberator, wrote literature
Wilmot Proviso
failed to stop slavery from spreading to western Mexican territory
Preston Brooks vs Charles Sumner
Brooks violently beat Sumner with a cane at political event
Battle of Vicksburg
Fought over the Mississippi river, North won
Battle of Gettysburg
bloodiest battle in civil war