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john Wilkes booth
a well known actor that supported slavery and the southern confederacy. On the night of April 14, 1865 he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

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Nat Turner
Abolitionist
He was a slave that led a rebellion along with other slaves killing approximately 60 white men, women, and children. Later, as the revolt turned more severe, white slave catchers began questioning other slaves about Nat Turner and well along with killing them as a sign towards Nat Turner.

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clara barton
"(1821:1912)"
was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk barton  is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home.

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stonewall jackson
he was a confederate general  during the civil war. he was very known. one of the souths most succesfull  generals

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andrew johnson
politician
17th president of U.S.

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Rutherford Hayes
Politician
America's 19th President

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Frederick Douglas
was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

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Denmark Vesey
He was a Slave, He fought to liberate his people from slavery. Planned an important slave insurrection. He was a self-educated black who led the most extensive slave revolt in U.S. history.

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Ulysses S.Grant He was a General,He was important because he was the late general in the civil war and later became the 18th President in 1869 of the United States. He was the commander of all U.S armies in the civil war, Graduated from west point and fought in the Mexican American war. Born April 27, 1822
Died July 23, 1885

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was a abolitionist. She wrote one of the most influential book in american history called "uncle's tom cabin." She was also a novelist.

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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison William was an abolitionist.  He was important because he wrote an abolitionist paper called The Liberator. He helped form the New England Antislavery Society and when the Civil War started he continued to expose the Constitution as a  pro-slavery document.

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Dred ScottHe was a slave.A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.They were saying that slaves were not people that they were properti

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Jefferson Davis He was a Politician. He was the President of the Confederate States. He was a Senator from Mississippi, he was also a Mexican War hero. He was the U.S. Secretary of War. He died in New Orleans in 1889. After the Confederate surrendered in May 1865, he was captured and charged for treason he was never tried in court. He never regained his citizenship to the U.S.

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Robert E. Lee.
He was a General.
He had fought in the Mexican-American War, Harpers Ferry Raid, and the American Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln was a Politician. He was elected president on November 6, 1860 (16th). He created the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed over 3 million slaves. Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, which was a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14,1865 by John Wilkes Booth.