USI.9d Leaders of the Civil War

16th President of the United States- led the country through the Civil War

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln opposed the spread of

• slavery

• state's rights

• cotton

• freedom

Lincoln believed this

• The Union (country) should not be held together by force

• The Union should be held together, by force if necessary

• Slavery, even though it was bad, needed to be kept in the nation

• All people who owned slaves were evil

Which does NOT fit with Abraham Lincoln?

• Gettysburg Address

• Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

President of the Confederate States of America

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

General of the Army of Northern Virginia- offered command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war, but chose not to fight against Virginia

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

A top Confederate general who was skilled in battle tactics (he was from Virginia, too!)

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Lee believed this

• The Union (country) should not be held together by force

• The Union should be held together, by force if necessary

• Slavery, even though it was bad, needed to be kept in the nation

• All people who owned slaves were evil

After the war, what would Robert E. Lee have said?

• "Keep fighting, never surrender!"

• "The war might be over, but we will never reunite."

• "The war is over- we need to stop fighting and reunite as Americans."

Who was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Susan B Anthony