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DSST Civil War: Names
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1. Invented the reaper - could harvest 6x more rain than men alone
John Calhoun
General Burnside
McCormick
Dred Scott
2. Abolitionist - escaped from slavery - great thinker and speaker - published his own antislavery newspaper and wrote an autobiography
George McClellan
Captain Henry Wirz
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
3. South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights - limited government - and nullification
General Rosecrans
George McClellan
Jubal Early
John Calhoun
4. General of the Union army - appointed general by Lincoln after firing McClellan
Eli Whitney
John Calhoun
General Burnside
William Lloyd Garrison
5. President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
General Buford
6. General of the Confederate army - attacked at Gettysburg with 15 -000 soldiers; called __________'s Charge; ended in faliure
George McClellan
General Pickett
Robert Shaw
Nathan Bedford Forrest
7. General of the Union army - first to lead the union army into Gettysburg
General Hooker
Harriet Tubman
General Buford
General Joe Johnston
8. General of the Union Army - best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
Nat Turner
General Thomas Jackson
McCormick
General Hooker
9. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry - Virginia
John C. Fremont
John Brown
Joshua Chamberlain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. General-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War.
Captain Henry Wirz
Frederick Douglass
General U.S. Grant
Clara Barton
11. General of the Union army at the Battle of Chickamauga
Denmark Vessey
General Rosecrans
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry Clay
12. General of the Union army - ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He burned and destroyed all farmland - animals and food
Denmark Vessey
General Buford
Harriet Tubman
General Sheridan
13. Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia. Revolt led to the deaths of 20 whites and 40 blacks and led to the 'gag rule' outlawing any discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives
William Lloyd Garrison
Jefferson Davis
John C. Fremont
Nat Turner
14. Confederate Cavalry Commander - Battles: Shiloh - Vicksburg - Chickamauga - Atlanta - Savannah - Chattanooga - and Carolina Campaign - started the KKK
Dred Scott
General U.S. Grant
Denmark Vessey
Nathan Bedford Forrest
15. General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious - Peninsular campaign
Jubal Early
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George McClellan
Dred Scott
16. General of the Confederate army - worked closely with Robert E. Lee. He disagreed with Lee on Pickett's charge - but reluctantly gave the order to go ahead with it.
John Brown
Robert Shaw
Henry Clay
General James Longstreet
17. General of the Union army; surrounded and defeated Lee at Gettysburg
George McClellan
General Thomas Jackson
General Meade
Clement Vallandigham
18. General of the Confederate army - he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg - and he surrendered to the Union's commander General
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George McClellan
Joshua Chamberlain
General Robert E. Lee
19. Senator who persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise - which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state - and Missouri as a slave state
Robert Shaw
Henry Clay
Horace Greely
Jefferson Davis
20. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
McCormick
William H. Seward
General Joe Johnston
General U.S. Grant
21. Slave whose case led the Supreme court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Dred Scott
General U.S. Grant
General Thomas Jackson
McCormick
22. General of the Confederate army - assaulted Grant at the battle of Shiloh. He dies at the battle because he was shot in the leg and cant feel it - and thus bleeds to death.
General A. S. Johnston
Jubal Early
General James Longstreet
General Meade
23. Ohio unionist of the Copperhead faction of anti-war - pro-Confederate Democrats
General Burnside
Captain Henry Wirz
General Meade
Clement Vallandigham
24. General of the Confederate army at 1st Battle of Bull Run and Peninsula Campaign. He surrendered to William Sherman on April 26th - 1865 in North Carolina.
General A. S. Johnston
General Joe Johnston
General Pope
General Hooker
25. Confederate General; earned his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run. Robert E. Lee's 'right-hand man.' Died at Chancellorsville
George McClellan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
General Thomas Jackson
Joshua Chamberlain
26. Confederate: sent to sweep Union forces from the Valley and - if possible - to menace Washington - D.C. - hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Petersburg - Virginia - terrorized D.C.
General Thomas Jackson
Jubal Early
General Joe Johnston
Wendell Phillips
27. President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass
General Sheridan
George McClellan
28. Abolitionist. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper 'The Liberator' - and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
General Joe Johnston
General Pope
William Lloyd Garrison
General Hooker
29. Author of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
Harriet Beecher Stowe
General Thomas Jackson
General A. S. Johnston
Frederick Douglass
30. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
General Hooker
General U.S. Grant
Harriet Tubman
General Thomas Jackson
31. Launched the American Red Cross. An 'angel' in the Civil War - she treated the wounded in the field.
Clara Barton
Clement Vallandigham
General Joe Johnston
Eli Whitney
32. Leader of a slave rebellion - but was found out by Charleston SC - arrested and executed
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Denmark Vessey
33. Presidential nominee for Republicans in election of 1856
Harriet Tubman
Captain Henry Wirz
John C. Fremont
John Brown
34. Union commander of the 20th Maine - achieved fame during the Battle of Gettysburg for his defense of Little Round Top
Captain Henry Wirz
William H. Seward
Jefferson Davis
Joshua Chamberlain
35. General of the Union army who captured Atlanta - Georgia - then marched through Georgia to the sea - burning and destroying everything on the way
General Sherman
George McClellan
William H. Seward
General Sheridan
36. Invented the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged
General Sheridan
Horace Greely
George McClellan
Eli Whitney
37. General of the Union army at 2nd Battle of Bull Run; defeated; replaced by McClellan
General Pope
Henry Clay
Clement Vallandigham
General Burnside
38. Abolitionist who aided Garisson and helped him in abolition - denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation
Dred Scott
Wendell Phillips
General Meade
George McClellan
39. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war
General Sherman
William H. Seward
Captain Henry Wirz
General Buford
40. Union Colonel in command the all black 54th Mass. regiment
Robert Shaw
Henry Clay
George McClellan
General Pope
41. Democratic party's nominee for pres. in 1864- lost to Lincoln
General Robert E. Lee
Clara Barton
George McClellan
General U.S. Grant
42. Abolitionist newspaper publisher to whom Lincoln wrote a letter about wanting to resote the union - even if slavery had to continue.
Horace Greely
John Calhoun
Jefferson Davis
General Pickett