The US Civil War/Important People

Abraham Lincoln

• 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

Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee

Thomas Jackson

Frederick Douglass