Quizlet US History - Chapter 14

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  1. Abraham Lincoln: signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law
  2. Clara Barton: founder of the American Red Cross
  3. Dorothea Dix: a leader of the US Sanitary Commission; later named superintendent of nurses
  4. Frederick Douglass: abolitionist; fought and won for black soldiers' right to join the army
  5. George McClellan: General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious
  6. James Buchanan: 15th President of the US; offered to protect slavery to keep the union together
  7. Jefferson Davis: 1st and only President of the CSA
  8. John Crittenden: Senator who proposed slavery be protected by the Constitution
  9. Robert E. Lee: leader of Southern forces during the Civil War
  10. Salmon P. Chase: established a national banking system and the issue of a legal tender paper currency
  11. Ulysses S. Grant: general of the Union Army; captured Vicksburg; led the North to victory
  12. William Tecumseh Sherman: Union general; captured Atlanta; burned Atlanta