Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and abolitionist. She is best known for her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted the life of an American slave. Her novel was read by many American people and helped to encourage more anti-slavery movement.
Charles Sumner was the senator of Massachusetts and was strongly against slavery. He was the leader of the Radical Republicans which worked to destroy the confederacy and the slave owners trying to take governmental powers called the Slave Power. In the reconstruction he fought for equal civil and voting rights for the men who were freed from slavery.
John Brown was an abolitionist who used forces and violence to try and get rid of slavery. He wanted action and believed that other abolitionists were not taking any. John Brown is well known for his failed raid at Harper's Ferry, after the failed attempt he was hanged.
Stephen Douglas designed the Kansas-Nebraska act and played a valuable part in the Compromise of 1850. He was a U.S. senator and representative. He lost to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. He believed that the majority of citizens should decide issues like expansion and slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. The south did not support him because they thought he was an abolitionist, Lincoln was just against the expansion of slavery. The South split into the confederate states and to help gain support of the North from Britain, Lincoln created the emancipation proclamation. Later Lincoln helped push the 13th amendment, which banned slavery, into the constitution.
Jefferson Davis was the leader of the Confederate during the civil war. He was unable to get any recognition from foreign countries and was unable to improve the south's failing economy. His stubbornness and inability to recognize the people's opinion led to a dysfunctional government
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States. Grant was a successful general in the civil war, who helped defeat the confederate army and force Robert E. Lee, the Confederate military officer, to surrender. He aimed to eliminate Confederate nationalism and slavery. In his second term southern opposition caused his policies to fail.
Robert E. Lee was a successful military officer for the Confederate. He was a skilled tactician and military strategist. He won many battles against superior Union armies. His surrender in 1865 at the Appomattox court house led to the other Confederate armies losing to the stronger Union.
William Tecumseh Sherman was a general for the Union during the civil war. He was a great military strategist and used scorched earth policies, destroying anything that might be useful for the enemy, to gain an advantage. He succeeded Ulysses S. Grant as general and accepted the surrender of the confederate armies in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.