1. DRED SCOTT DECISION • Slave from Missouri traveled with his owner to Illinois & Minnesota both free states. • His master died and Scott wanted to move back to Missouri---Missouri still recognized him as a slave. • He sued his master’s widow for his freedom since he had lived in a free state for a period of time. • Court case went to the Supreme Court for a decision-----National issue

2. Picture/J.Brown JOHN BROWN • Violent abolitionist • Involved in the Bleeding Kansas • Murdered 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas • Wanted to lead a slave revolt throughout the South by raising an army of freed slaves and destroying the South.

3. Abraham Lincoln

4. Some people say I built the log cabin I was born in. I married a crazy lady and had a pansy boy named Tad.

5. He was a graduate of WestPoint. Grant had no intention of making the military as his career. Instead, he wanted to be a professor of mathematics. Union Leaders (SSUSH9c)Ulysses S. Grant

6. Grant was 5’8 and only weighed 135 pounds. He did not like red meat of any kind, and the sight of blood made him feel sick. For his meals, he wanted his meat to be cooked so much that it was almost burned. He would not eat any kind of bird, but he did like pork and beans, fruit, and pancakes. Union Leaders (SSUSH9c)Ulysses S. Grant

7. Grant gave overall command to Sherman of all of the Western Forces, amounting to over 100,000 men. William Tecumseh Sherman

8. He was a WestPoint graduate and the first choice that President Lincoln wanted as the Commander of the Union forces. Confederate LeadersRobert E. Lee

9. Perhaps the most brilliant military tactician in the war and his leadership of the Confederate Army. Confederate LeadersRobert E. Lee

10. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was a brilliant field commander under Robert E. Lee for the Confederacy Stonewall Jackson

11. He had taught military strategy at the Virginia Military Institute prior to the Civil War. Stonewall Jackson

12. While out on patrol inspecting the front lines at Chancelorsville, Jackson was returning to his campsite. His troops mistook him for the enemy and shot him. Stonewall Jackson

13. Jefferson Davis was a graduate of West Point served in the army before becoming a planter. He served as a Senator from Mississippi before resigning when Mississippi seceded from the Union. Jefferson Davis

14. He was elected President of the Confederacy. initially successful in mobilizing the Confederacy for war he was unable to maintain the balance of military necessity and political will to keep the Confederacy from collapsing Jefferson Davis