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The US Civil War/Important People

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Abraham Lincoln

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  • Was the president of the United States.
  • Opposed the spread of slavery.
  • Believed the U.S. was one nation, not a collection of independent states.
  • Was determined to preserve the Union by force if necessary.
  • Issued the Emancipation Proclomation, which freed the slaves in the Confederate States.
  • Wrote the Gettysburg Address.

Jefferson Davis

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Robert E. Lee

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Thomas Jackson

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Frederick Douglass

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