People and Battles of the Civil War

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Congressional Republican after the Civil War who wanted to make it difficult on the former Confederate states to rejoin the country and wanted to give African Americans full citizenship & the right to vote

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Radical Republican

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U.S. President from 1860-1865 who advocated for preserving the union

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Abraham Lincoln

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Confederate general known for his strong counterattack at the first battle of Bull Run / Manassas (hint: where he got his nickname)

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Stonewall Jackson

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President of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

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Union nurse during the Civil War, then founded the Red Cross organization afterwards

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Clara Barton

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one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Abraham Lincoln’s assassin

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John Wilkes Booth

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General who led the Union army on the western frontier near the Mississippi

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Ulysses S Grant

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Became U.S. President as a result of the Compromise of 1877—thus ending the time period of Reconstruction

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Rutherford B.Hayes

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Union general who caused much destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas

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William T.Sherman