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| Abraham Lincoln | won the election of 1860 and reelected in 1864 then in 1865 was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth; successfully managed the war- ex: strategy and ensuring the loyalty of the border states |
| Jefferson Davis | from Mississippi and a war hero from the Mexican War; the president of the Confederacy; often mismanaged the Confederate war effort because he was a micromanager |
| Robert E. Lee | A Virginian- the commander of the Confederacy's famed Army of Northern Virginia- the Confederacy's greatest hero. |
| Stonewall Jackson | Lee's best general- accidentally killed by one of his own men in the Battle of Chancellorsville |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who seized control of Vicksburg and pummeled Lee 1864-1865 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Sherman was a Union general that led the famous "March to the sea" through Georgia and brought about the idea of "total war." |
| Winfield Scott | A Union General that helped create the Anaconda Plan that defeated the South. Ran for presidency in 1852 |
| William Seward | The Secretary of State during Lincoln's presidency. An outspoken speaker against the spread of slavery. Played a pivotoal role in preventing British intervention. |
| Charles Francis Adams | Elected a member of the House in 1858 and aided in helping the U.S stay neutral with Britain during the Civil War as U.S. Ambassador to Britian. |
| Clara Barton | Famous for her nurse work during the Civil War and the founder of the American Red Cross. |
| Dorothea Dix and Elizabeth Blackwell | Led the U.S. Sanitary Commission |
| Clement L. Vallandigham | Led the Copperheads- anti-war Democrats |
| George McClellan | Union general who was too cautious and was relieved of command by Lincoln after Antietam |
| John Wilkes Booth | A southern actor who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln who was a southern Democrat |
| Thaddeus Stevens | A Radical Republican from Pennsylvania who saw Reconstruction as an opportunity to radically alter southern society. Wanted to punish the South as far was confiscating the planters' lands and distributing them to free blacks. Led the impeachment process. |
| Charles Sumner | A Radical Republican from New York who was earlier beaten up by Congressman Brooks in 1856. |
| George Julian | A Radical Republican from Indiana who saw Reconstruction as an opportunity to alter southern society. |
| Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce | The first two black senators in the Senate- both from Mississippi. |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | A former Confederate General who was a prominent early member of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Samuel Tilden | The Democratic candidate in the Election of 1876 who had won the popular vote but |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | The Republican candidate in the Election of 1876 who won due to the Compromise of 1877; sometimes called "His Fraudulency". |
| Henry Grady | Editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution who called for a "New South" and feared the South would almost be like a colony to the North. |
| James B. Duke | Established the American Tobacco Company. |
