Dred Scott

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He helped Abe Lincoln think about slavery more
• He helped Abe Lincoln think about making the emancipation proclamation

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Harriet Tubman

Reasons why she was important to the war

• She helped 300 slaves be free
• She organized the Underground Railroad
• She was a union spy
• She was a humanitarian
• She was a abolitionist

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Frederick Douglass

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was a anti-slavery lecturer
• He made a anti-slavery newspaper
• He was the leader of a abolitionist movement

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Nat Turner

Reasons why he was important to the war

• Nat was a slave leader he helped a lot of slaves
• He caused a slave uprising it killed 50 Caucasian people
• He died by being hanged

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Jefferson Davis

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He defended slavery
• He was the president of the confederate

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Robert E. Lee

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He commanded a confederate army
• He was a good strategist
• When he and his army's attack
• On the enemy was showed in the battle of Gettysburg

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Ulysses S. Grant

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was a commander of the union army
• Ulysses defeated the confederate army in 1865
• He made the 15th amendment official when he became president

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Stonewall Jackson

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He had his mark on the war in the battle 1st bull run
• He became later on the deputy of Robert e. Lee
• He was American
• He was a confederate general

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George Pickett

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was a U.S army
• Later he was a confederate general
• He was in the bloody assault of battle of Gettysburg
• He had something named after him Pickett's Charge

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Robert Gould Shaw

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was American
• He was a military officer for the union army
• He commanded the 54th infantry regiment

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Abraham Lincoln

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was the union president
• He didn't want the confederacy the secede
• He created the emancipation proclamation
• He gave the Gettysburg address
• He wanted slaves to be freed

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Clara Barton

Reasons why she was important to the war

• She was a activist for the U.S
• She started Red Cross
• She was Americans Red Cross's first president

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John Quincy Adams

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He severed for the U.S senate
• He helped with the negotiation of the treaty of Ghant
• He protected the freedom of speech amendment

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John Wilkes Booth

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He was actor
• He assassinated Lincoln

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Eli Whitney

Reasons why he was important to the war

• He invented cotton gin
• He also came up with idea of mass producing interchanging parts
• He supplied the government with muskets ( guns )

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