The US Civil War/Important People

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Abraham Lincoln[edit | edit source]

  • Was the president of the United States.
  • Opposed the spread of slavery.
  • Believed the U.S. was one nation, not a collection of independent states.
  • Was determined to preserve the Union by force if necessary.
  • Issued the Emancipation Proclomation, which freed the slaves in the Confederate States.
  • Wrote the Gettysburg Address.

Jefferson Davis[edit | edit source]

Ulysses S. Grant[edit | edit source]

Robert E. Lee[edit | edit source]

Thomas Jackson[edit | edit source]

Frederick Douglass[edit | edit source]