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Flashcards: US History - Chapter 14

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James Buchanan15th President of the US; offered to protect slavery to keep the union together
Frederick Douglassabolitionist; fought and won for black soldiers' right to join the army
Abraham Lincolnsigned the Emancipation Proclamation into law
Jefferson Davis1st and only President of the CSA
Robert E. Leeleader of Southern forces during the Civil War
Clara Bartonfounder of the American Red Cross
George McClellanGeneral of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious
John CrittendenSenator who proposed slavery be protected by the Constitution
Ulysses S. Grantgeneral of the Union Army; captured Vicksburg; led the North to victory
Dorothea Dixa leader of the US Sanitary Commission; later named superintendent of nurses
Salmon P. Chaseestablished a national banking system and the issue of a legal tender paper currency
William Tecumseh ShermanUnion general; captured Atlanta; burned Atlanta