Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States

• Opposed  the  spread  of  slavery  

• Determined  to  keep  the  Union  together,  by  force  if  necessary  

• Believed  the  U.S.  was  one  nation,  not  a  collection  of  independent  states  

• Wrote  Gettysburg  Address  that  said  the  Civil  War  was  to  preserve  a  

government  “of  the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people”  

• Issued  Emancipation  Proclamation  

 

Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America

• Moved  Confederate  capital  to  Richmond  

 

Ulysses S. Grant Top Union General

• Defeated  Lee  and  accepted    his  surrender  

 

Robert E. Lee Top Confederate General

• Was  leader  of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  

• Was  offered  a  command  of  the  Union  army,  but  could  not  fight  against  VA  

• Opposed  secession,  but  did  not  believe  the  Union  should  be  held  together  by  

force  

• Urged  Southerners  to  accept  defeat  at  the  end  of  the  war  and  reunite  as  

Americans  when  some  wanted  to  fight  on  

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Lee's Top Advisor

• Was  a  skilled  confederate  general  from  Virginia  

 

Civil War Leaders

Important People Review  

Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Wrote  “Uncle  Tom’s  Cabin”  

• Made  people  see  the  evils  of  slavery  

 

Nat Turner

• Led  slave  rebellion  that  scared  the  South  

 

John Brown

• Fought  against  slavery  in  Kansas  and  at  Harpers  Ferry  

 

Frederick Douglass

• Former  enslaved  African  American  who  escaped  to  the  

North  and  became  an  abolitionist.