1821-1877

** People ** ** Abraham Lincoln **  Why He Was Important...
 * President during the civil war (1861-1865)
 * Took control of Union Army in 1861.
 * Caused Emancipation Proclamation to be established in 1862 by endorsing it.
 * Delivered famous “Gettysburg Address” after Union Victory in Gettysburg (1863).



 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln I used this site to find factual information about Abraham Lincoln. Taylor **Robert E. Lee ** Why He Was Important...
 * First made himself known through the Mexican- American War
 * Once a Union Soldier, having attended West Point with Ulysses S. Grant
 * Joined Confederate States of America as one of the first five “full generals” (1861)
 * Beat Union Soldiers at the Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took offensive measures by invading the North



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee I used this site to find information about Lee’s military battles Taylor <span style="background-color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Andrew Jackson** Why He Was Important...


 * <span style="background-color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Seventh president of united states
 * <span style="background-color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Was a politician and army general (won the battle of New Orleans –war of 1812, defeated creek indians –battle of horseshoe bend)
 * <span style="background-color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Destroyed national bank
 * <span style="background-color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Relocated indians southwest of the mississippi river (trail of tears)



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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Frederick Douglass** Why he is important...


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Famous abolishionist
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Escaped slavery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Author of 3 autobiographies,” Narrative of the life of Frederick douglass, An american slave” being most influential
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Supported womens rights

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] I used this website to find factual information on Frederick Douglass Byron <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Henry Clay** Why He Was Important...

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Known as the Great Compromiser
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Secretary of State from 1825-1829
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Involved in the “corrupt bargain”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Came up with the Compromise of 1850

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Andrew Johnson** Why He Was Important...


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The president following Lincoln’s assassination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">President who presided over Reconstruction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">President from 1865-69
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">One of the most unpopular presidents of all time
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Impeached but never convicted, Congress fell 1 vote short
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">During Reconstruction
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Johnson tried to implement a plan similar to Lincoln’s 10% plan
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Radical Republican Congress disliked him very much: they wanted to punish the south, especially after Lincoln’s death.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Zach H  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ulysses S. Grant ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why he was important?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because of Grant, the Union Army had defeated the Confederate Army ending the war with the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s army at Appomattox.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He effectively ended the Klu Klux Klan in 1871

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jefferson Davis ** Why he was important?

** John Brown ** [|Malcolm X] said that white people could not join his [|black nationalist] [|Organization of Afro-American Unity], but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Important because he inspired Northerners and was despised by Southerners. He has been reffered to as America’s first domestic terrorist.
 * American Politician served as president during American Civil War
 * Served as US senator of Mississippi
 * Served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce

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 * American Revolutionary Abolitionist who supported terrorism and violence
 * Led Pottawatomie Massacre in Bleeding Kansas where he killed five pro slavery settlers with broadswords in response to the raid of Lawrence.
 * Known for his unsuccessful raid of Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
 * He tried to seize the United States Arsenal there in order to arm a slave revolt.
 * He was captured by then US Col. Robert E. Lee and hanged later in that year.

Stonewall Jackson Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general during the Civil War. After leading Confederate troops to victory in campaigns in the Shenadoah valley and the Battle of Chancellorsville, after which he was killed due to complications after being hit by friendly fire. His loss was important in that he was one of the best Confederate Generals and Lee described it as like “losing my right arm”.


 * Fought at the key battles of Chancellorsville and Bull Run.
 * Aggressive tactician known as the “hammer” of Lee’s army.
 * Shot by friendly fire after the battle of Chancellorsville and eventually died.
 * Is thought to have maybe swung the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg had he still been alive.

** Events ** Nullification Crisis (1832) Influenced by..
 * Ordinance of Nullification
 * Economic Down turn
 * Tariffs enacted during John Quincy Adams Presidency
 * Andrew Jackson as president
 * War of 1812

Why it was important


 * Effected the nullification of tariffs
 * Possible seccession of the southern states

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Influenced by
 * American Civil War
 * John Wilkes Booth

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Civil War (1861-65) - ZACH**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Causes:**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Long Term
 * 2) Growing sectionalism between the North and South over slavery issues
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Short Term
 * 4) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President was the single event that lead to Southern secession.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Major Battles**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Fort Sumter – beginning of the war
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">First Battle of Bull Run – Confederate victory, crushing blow for the Union.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Battle of Antietam – strategic win for the Union
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Battle of Vicksburg – one of the turning points of the war
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Battle of Gettysburg – THE turning point of the war.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Appomattox Courthouse – General Lee surrenders and the Union wins the war.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Emancipation Proclamation**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lincoln’s proclamation that set all slaves free that were in the states that seceded.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Common misconception**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Civil War was not started by the Union because of slavery or abolition, it was about preserving the Union.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">However, the war slowly progressed into a war over slavery also
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**The Civil War shaped the face of the U.S. forever. It is one of the single most important events in U.S. history.**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Battle of Gettysburg by Currier and Ives

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trail of Tears (1831-1838) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Influenced by...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Establishment of "Indian Territory" in present-day Oklahoma
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Jackson elected as president of the United States
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Georgia legislature passes a law annexing all Cherokee country within the state's borders
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Removal Act passed by United States Congress
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Worchester vs. Georgia

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Why it was important...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Choctaw nation is removed voluntarily
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Seminoles resist and cause a war
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creek Confederacy signs a treaty with the government handing over most of the Creek lands
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chickasaw nation was driven off its lands by monetary compensation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cherokee nation was forced to relocate
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 4,000 Cherokee died over the thousand-mile march

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Influenced by...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compromise of 1850 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mexican-American War
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Annexation of Texas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California’s appeal for admission as a free state
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lewis Cass suggests the principle of “popular sovereignty” for newly entering territories

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it was important...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proposed by Henry Clay in 1849
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Texas gave up its claim to New Mexico in exchange for assumption of debt
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California was admitted as a free state
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New Mexico and Utah could decide by popular sovereignty the issue of slavery
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fugitive Slave Law was strengthened
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Slave Trade was banned in Washington D.C.



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I used this site to find the five events leading up to the Compromise of 1850. Taylor <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Emancipation Proclamation** Influenced by… <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Why it’s important…
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">The Civil War
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Abolitionist movements
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Election of Abraham Lincoln
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Union Victories in the Civil War
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> South Secession from the Union
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Immediately freed 50000 slaves and more later
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">First step for Africans in finding equality in America
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Showed the power of the Union
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">One of the reasons for Lincolns assassination
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Lead to the Civil War Amendments

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: baseline;">I used this website to find information on the Emancipation P roclamation **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Battle of Fort Sumter ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Influenced by...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">North and South's conflicts on slavery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">South's secession from the Union
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">U.S Politics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Radical Southerners
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Location (Union fort in the South)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why it is important... >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Was the battle that kicked of the war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">First win for the confederates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Raised Confederate morale
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Gave confederates complete control of Charleston
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Foreshadowed how bad the battles were going to be

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Assassination of Lincoln]