Social Studies People Flashcards
Confed General, loved by confeds, loses at Gettysburg, surrenders at Appomatox
Gen Robert E. Lee
President, Union, republican, delivers Gettysburg Address, sign Emancipation Proclamation, 10% plan
Abraham Lincoln
Union General who runs for President, loses, democrat
General George McClellan
Lincoln’s Assain, dies later
John Wilkes Booth
Leads Bayonet charge at LRT on day 2 of Gettysburg
General Chamberlain
Union general, implements total war, serves as president for 2 terms but doesn’t do much
General Ulysses S Grant
Led March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah GA
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Led Pickett’s charge which fails at Gettysburg
General Pickett
Democrat, takes over president after Lincoln’s death, first president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
Leaders of the radical republicans
Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner
Northerner traveling to the south, usually for profit
Carpetbaggers
Southerner who supported or helped the carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Political Group led congressional reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction