5th Grade: Famous Figures of The Civil War

To emancipate a person means . . .

• to make them a slave.

• to draft them into the Army.

• to free them from slavery.

Abolitionists were against _____________________ .

• slavery

• war of any kind

• the Bill of Rights

• emancipation

Fredrick Douglass is remembered as . . .

• the man who led a small rebellion at Harper's Ferry.

• a heroic abolitionist, speaker, and writer.

• an educated free man who was kidnapped and enslaved.

• the President of the Confederacy.

The fearless Confederate general who earned the nickname "Stonewall" at the First Battle of Bull Run.

• Thomas Jackson

• Robert Lee

• Zedekiah Smith

• Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• John Wilkes Booth

The 16th President of the United States; he signed the 13th Amendment, freeing the slaves and his leadership preserved the Union through the Civil War.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Jefferson Davis

A veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War, he was an old man when he served as President Lincoln's adviser at the beginning of the Civil War. He devised the "Anaconda Plan".

• General Winfield Scott

• General George McClellan

• General Ulysses S, Grant

• General Robert E, Lee

He turned down the offer to command the Union Army out of a sense of loyalty to Virginia - his home state. He is remembered as the most brilliant general of the Confederacy.

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas Jackson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George McClellan

An American soldier, railroad executive, and politician- he was named General-in-Chief of the Union Army for a short time. He deserves credit for the building and training of the Union Army in the early months of the Civil War.

• Gen. Robert E. Lee

• Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

• Gen. George "Little Mac" McClellan

• Gen. George Meade

The 4th and final General-in-Chief of the Union Army and the 18th President of the United States.

• Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant

• General George McClellan

• Gen. George Marshall

• Gen. Thomas Jackson