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Social Studies
The Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry Clay | Came up the Missouri Compromise that tried to keep the Union together and equal |
| Andrew Jackson | Was a President of the USA and believed in tariffs |
| John C. Calhoun | Senator from South Carolina was a strong supporter of states' right |
| Dred Scott | An African American who had escaped slavery, but the Supreme Court ruled that he did not have the rights of a white man |
| Nat Turner | An African American who in 1831, led a revolt in which about 100 people and he was killed |
| Samuel Cornish | With John Russwurm, FREEDOM'S JOURNAL started a journal, the first newspaper owned and publish by African Americans |
| John Russwurm | Worked with Samuel Cornish to found FREEDOM'S JOURNAL. |
| William Garrison | A white northern who founded the American |
| Frederick Douglas | An escaped slave who became a famous author and speaker |
| Sojourner Truth | Along with Lucretia Mott worked for woman's rights. They organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Female who fpught for women's rights |
| Lucretia Mott | Organized a woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Worked with Lucretia Mott to gain equal rights for women |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote the book UNCLE TOM'S CABIN that showed what the life of a slave could be like |
| Harriet Tubman | An escaped slave herself she was a conductor on the Underground and helped many people tp escape |
| Abraham Lincoln | In the Election of 1860, he became the first Republican President of America |
| Stephen Douglas | Took part in a series of debates before the beginning of the Civil War |
| John Brown | In 1859, led a group of men in a battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (Virginia, at the time) to get guns and weapons to start the war to free the slaves |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General who lead the Southern Army |
| Dorothea Dix | Woman who worked as a nurse in the ?Union army |
| Clara Barton | A Union woman who worked as a nurse and was nicknamed "Angel of the Battlefield" for her kindness to the soldiers |
| Sally Tompkins | Ran a hospital in Richmond for the Southern soldiers |
| Betty Boyd | A Confederate spy for the South |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Led the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General who finally was an effective leader |
| George G. Mead | Union General who lost the Battle of Bull Nun to General Lee |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General who marched hid troops from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Atlanta, Georgia |
| John Wilkes Booth | Murdered President Lincoln |