DRED SCOTT

• Slave
• 1795 September 17 1858
• Unsuccessfully sued for his freedom

HARRIET TUBMAN

• 1820 to march 10 1913
• Rescued more then 300 slaves
• Had seizures and narcolepsy
• Got hit in head by a heavy metal object

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• 1818-1895
• He was a orator, writer, and statesman
• Became a leader of the abolitionist movement
• Wrote several autobiographies

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

NAT TURNER

• 1800 - 1831
• Led a slave rebellion
• Killed 60 white men

ROBERT E. LEE

• 1807 - 1870
• Confederate officer
• Graduate of top military school
• General for confederate

JEFFERSON DAVIS

• President of the confederate states 1861 - 1865
• Born in 1808 died in 1889
• He suffered ill health his whole life
• Was a statesman and soldier

ULYSSES S. GRANT

• 1822 - 1885
• Union general
• Led the radical republicans
• Did not like the KKK

STONEWALL JACKSON

• 1824 - 1864
• Robert E. Lee accidentally shot him
• Was a confederate soldier
• Got his arm amputated from being shot then died 8 days later

GEORGE PICKETT

• 1825 - 1875
• General of the confederate states
• Remembered from his battle in Gettysburg
• Pickett's charge

ROBERT GOULD SHAW

• Colonel of black regiment
• 1837 - 1863
• He was killed in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner

ABE LINCOLN

• Died April 15th 1865
• Got shot by John Wilkes booth
• President of the union

CLARA BARTON

• 1821 - 1912
• Founded the Red Cross
• Was a nurse in the union

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

• 1767 - 1848
• American diplomat
• Treaty of Ghent

JOHN WILKES BOOTHE

• 1838 -1866
• Hated Lincoln
• Shot Lincoln and killed him

ELI WHITTNEY

• 1765 - 1825
• Made cotton gin
• The gin helped lessen slavery in the U.S

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