SS people

Question 1

Edward Pollard

Answer 1

confederate sympathizer - wrote the book The Lost Cause:A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates

Question 2

Alexander H. Stephens

Answer 2

Vice President of The Confederate States and 50th Governor of GA

Question 3

Nat Turner

Answer 3

enslaved African-American carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people

Question 4

Frederick Douglass

Answer 4

Abolitionist - Convinced Lincoln to use African American soldiers during the war

Question 5

Harriet Tubman

Answer 5

• abolitionist - after escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people using Underground Railroad

Question 6

William Lloyd Garrison -

Answer 6

Abolitionist who wrote The Liberator

Question 7

Jefferson Davis

Answer 7

President of the Confederacy

Question 8

Robert E. Lee

Answer 8

• Southern General - Led the Army of Northern Virginia

Question 9

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 9

Union General - leads the Union army

Question 10

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson -

Answer 10

Southern General - famous for leadership at Battle of Bull Run

Question 11

Robert Gould Shaw

Answer 11

Commanded the first all black regiment in the north east

Question 12

Clara Barton

Answer 12

• associated with Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.

Question 13

Dorothea Dix -

Answer 13

superintendent of army nurses during The Civil War

Question 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe -

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and within ten years two million copies had been sold worldwide. It turned a lot of northerners into abolitionists.

Question 15

Jennie Hodgers

Answer 15

(Albert Cashier) - Irish-born American soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting, and maintained it until death.

Question 16

Governor John Andrew -

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governor of Massachusetts - led the effort to enlist African Americans as soldiers and organized the 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Question 17

Lincoln (Secession, Emancipation Proclamation- Gettysburg address)

Answer 17

Secession was not permitted by the U.S. Constitution?
Gettysburg Address - made to soldiers and family of soldiers who died to inspire them to keep fighting for the union cause
Emancipation Proclamation - a military tactic by Lincoln aimed at weakening the South’s economy by
freeing the slaves.