Civil War

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  1. 2. American poet. At the start of the Civil War, he wrote “Beat! Beat! Drums!”
  2. 4. The 16th president
  3. 6. was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri
  4. 7. Commander of the Confederate States Army.
  5. 10. also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred September 17, 1862
  6. 11. he assassinated Abraham Lincoln at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
  7. 13. A former slave, Douglass became a leading figurehead in the anti-slavery movement
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  1. 1. escaped from slavery but returned on many dangerous missions to Maryland where she helped lead slaves to freedom.
  2. 3. The first battle of the Civil War.
  3. 5. was a senator from Mississippi. During the Civil War, he was the President of the Southern Confederate States
  4. 8. American writer and humorist, considered the ‘father of American literature’. Famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
  5. 9. Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady during the Civil War.
  6. 12. American General who was Commander of the Virginian Confederate Army from 1862 until its surrender in 1865