1. Civil War Leaders
USI 9d

2. Abraham Lincoln President of the United States
Against the spread of slavery
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

3. Believed the United States was one nation
Determined to keep the Union together even if by force
Wrote the Gettysburg Address

4. Emancipation Proclamation
Said that all slaves were now free. Said that slavery was illegal

5. Gettysburg Address
Speech given at the cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after the battle

6. Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America

7. Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Union (North) army that defeated Lee

8. Robert E. Lee Leader of the army of Northern Virginia
Offered command of the Union forces but did not want to fight against Virginia

9. Opposed secession, but did not believe in keeping the Union together by force
Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans

10. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Skilled Confederate General from Virginia

11. Frederick Douglass
Former enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist