Civil War Fun

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  1. 3. - came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
  2. 4. - led the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history.
  3. 8. – was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  4. 10. - made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
  5. 13. - was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
  6. 14. - was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
  7. 17. - became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.
  8. 18. - American War and Confederate army officer who served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, serving in the Western Theater.
  9. 20. - escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
  10. 21. - he was accused and convicted of being the leader of "the rising," a potentially major slave revolt which was scheduled to take place in the city on July 14. He was executed on July 2.
  11. 22. - was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer.
  12. 24. - the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bombarded the fort and forced its surrender to start the war.
  13. 29. - was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
  14. 30. - notable for his leadership in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. He was killed in action in the 1862 Battle of Chantilly.
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  1. 1. – the wife of Abraham Lincoln
  2. 2. - After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
  3. 5. - was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into a prominent Boston abolitionist family, he accepted command of the first all-black regiment in the Northeast.
  4. 6. - “I would prefer to have this a white man's war," he said.
  5. 7. - was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
  6. 9. - served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
  7. 11. - a military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
  8. 12. - was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.
  9. 15. he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
  10. 16. – killed Lincoln
  11. 19. - was an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
  12. 23. - was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
  13. 25. - created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.
  14. 26. - He had a brief stint in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East.
  15. 27. - was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House Speaker as well as the ninth Secretary of State.
  16. 28. - was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican Abraham Lincoln.