CHA3U – American History: Who’s Who & Key Events
Unit #4: A Nation Divided - The American Civil War
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Mini Bio (Description of Accomplishments/Significance)
Eli Whitney
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Gabriel Prosser
Nat Turner
Sojourner Truth
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
John Brown
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln (President)
John Breckinridge
John Bell
Stephen Douglas
General Winfield Scott
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
George McClellan
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
General Irwin McDowell
General P.G.T. Beauregard
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
General Albert Johnston
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth
General Benjamin Butler
Walt Whitman
William H. Seward
Robert Gould Shaw
General George Meade
General George Pickett
James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart
General Nathan Bedford Forrest
William Tecumseh Sherman
General Braxton Bragg
Key Event (Description/Significance)
The Cotton Gin
Industrialization
The Peculiar Institution
Abolitionists
Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Liberator
The Underground Railroad
Harper’s Ferry
Missouri Compromise
Secession
Election of 1860
Fugitive Slave Act
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Confederate States of America
Firing on Fort Sumter
The Trent Incident
The Anaconda Plan
The Battle of Bull Run
The Ironclad
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Attack on Fort Wagner
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Pickett’s Charge
Fredericksburg
Battle of Vicksburg and Port Hudson
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
St.Alban’s Raid
General Sherman’s March to the Sea
Savannah Surrenders
Richmond Falls
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
Lincoln’s Assassination
Jefferson Davis’ Capture