Unit 4 Historic Figures

3. Slave who went to court and asked to be freed on the basis that he had lived in free territory. He was denied by the Supreme Court who expanded their decision to include the idea that slaves were not citizens and so had no rights under the law.
9. Women's rights leader in the 1800s who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments on women's rights.
10. Former slave, abolitionist leader, and eloquent speaker against slavery in Britain and the United States.
12. General in the Confederate army, led Confederate army in the 1st Battle of Bull Run
13. Commander of Union forces at the end of the war, later 18th President of the United States
14. the Union general who led a 400 mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina
15. First and only President of the Confederate States of America.
16. Radical abolitionist who led a raid on a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia with the intention of arming the slaves and starting a slaves revolt.

1. Radical abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator, he called for an immediate end to slavery.
2. Explorers sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase and search for river routes to the Pacific.
4. Invented the cotton gin and came up with the idea of interchangeable parts, leading to the ability for mass production of goods.
5. As the third president of the United States he added the Louisiana Territory to the nation and was responsible for ordering the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore it.
6. Commander of Confederate forces during the war
7. African American preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831
8. Abolitionist activists from South Carolina who lectured and wrote on the evils of slavery, they later began working for women's rights as well.
11. President of the United States during the Civil War