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Civil War People

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE

BY: JOSH FRIEDMAN

DRED SCOTT

  • Slave
  • 1795-1858
  • Unsuccessfully sued

HARRIET TUBMAN

  • 1820-1913
  • Rescued many slaves from South
  • Had seizures and narcolepsy
  • Got hit in head with metal object

FREDRICK DOUGLAS

  • 1818-1895
  • Was a orator, writer, and a statesman
  • Became a leader of the abolitionist movement
  • Wrote several autobiographies
Photo by Marion Doss

NAT TURNER

  • 1800-1831
  • Led a slave rebellion
  • Killed 60 white men
Photo by Elvert Barnes

ROBERT E. LEE

  • 1807-1870
  • Confederate general
  • Graduate of top military school
Photo by Marion Doss

JEFFERSON DAVIS

  • 1808-1889
  • President of confederacy
  • Suffered ill health until he died
  • Was a statesman and a soldier
Photo by Marion Doss

ULYSSES S. GRANT

  • 1822-1885
  • Union general
  • Led the radical republicans
  • Didn't like the KKK

GEORGE PICKETT

  • 1825-1875
  • General for Cobfederacy
  • Remembered for his charge in Gettysburg
  • Pickett's charge
Photo by cliff1066™

STONEWALL JACKSON

  • 1824-1864
  • Robert E Lee accidentally
  • Got arm amputated
Photo by cliff1066™

ABE LINCOLN

  • 1809-1865
  • U.S. President
  • Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  • Self educated

ROBERT GOULD SHAW

  • Colonel of black regiment
  • 1837-1863
  • Was killed in the second battle of fort Wagner
Photo by KKfromBB

CLARA BARTON

  • 1821-1912
  • Founded Red Cross
  • Nurse for the union
Photo by Marion Doss

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

  • 1767-1848
  • American diplomat
  • Treaty of Ghent ended war of 1812

JOHN WILKES BOOTH

  • 1838-1866
  • Hated Lincoln
  • Shot Lincoln
Photo by cliff1066™

ELI WHITNEY

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