DRED SCOTT

• Tried to sue for freedom didn't work
• Because he was a slave at Southampton county virginia
• Married Harriet Robinson had two kids

DRED SCOTT HAD A CASE TO SUE FOR FREEDOM

DRED SCOTT WAS A SLAVE

HARRIET TUBMAN

• Born into slavery
• Escaped slavery
• She suffered bad head injury
• Became an abolishinest
• Was a general

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Was born into slavery in talbot county
• Escaped slavery and became an abolishinest
• He married Murray
• He moved to New Bedford Massachusetts

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ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY

NAT TURNER

• He was the leader of a famous slave rebellion that killed 60 white people
• After they came back with 200 black deaths
• Nat got some supporters from Southampton Virginia
• Later they hung nat because he did that

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JEFFERSON DAVIS

• He was the president of the confederacy
• He also was a soldier and a statesman
• He took a personal charge because his plans could not defeat the union
• He was captured in 1865 he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after 2 years

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ROBERT E.LEE

• He was the general of the confederate army
• When Virginia decided to succeed he followed his home state
• After the war lee supported The andrew Johnson plan to reconstruct The united states

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ULYSSES S GRANT

• General of the union army
• Also was the Vice President of the union
• He defeated the confederate army and Robert E. Lee surrendered

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GEORGE PIKETT

• United States army officer who became a general in the confederate army during the civil war
• He was the cousin of the future General Henry heth
• Went to springville Illinois to study law
• At the age 17 he was appointed to the United States military school

STONEWALL JACKSON

• He was also a confederate general
• Robert E. Lee shot him by accident in the battle of Chancellorsville
• In the second bull run, Antietam, and fredericksberg he was not a great commander

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ROBERT GOULD SHAW

• American military officer I the union army during the civil war
• As a colonel he commanded the all black 54th Massachusetts infantry regiment which entered the war in 1863
• He was killed in the second battle of fort Wagner

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• He was the president of the union during the civil war
• Lincoln led the union through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis the civil war
• 3 days after the civil war ended Lincoln was assassinated by john Wilkes booth

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CLARA BARTON

• She was the nurse of the civil war
• She also started the Red Cross
• Her company based on helping war disasters and helping others

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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

• He was the 6th United States president
• He was a member of the democratic republican, national republican,and anti Masonic, and Whig parties
• He was the son of a former president John Adams

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JOHN WILKES BOOTH

• He assassinated Abraham Lincoln fords theatre
• He had family in Maryland
• Booth and a group of people were originally trying to kidnap Lincoln but later planned to kill him
• After the assassination 12 days later he was tracked down and shot by a union soldier
• 8 other suspects were tried and convicted and 4 were hung shortly after

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ELI WHITNEY

• He was an American inventor known for inventing cotton gin
• His invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop
• Despite the social or economic impact on his invention Whitney lost many profits in legal battles

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