This follows VA SOL USI.9d

1. USI.9d

2. I. Abraham Lincoln:
http://www.biography.com/p
eople/abraham-lincoln-
9382540/videos/abraham-
lincoln-the-emancipation-
proclamation-34010750
The Great Emancipator

a) Elected 16 President in 1860-
th
1865
b) Abolitionist
c) January 1863-Emancipation
Proclamation freed slaves in
rebelling states
d) November 1863- Gettysburg
Address wanted to preserve a
government “of the people, by
the people, and for the
people.” This speech turned
the Civil War into a war for
Union and freedom.

3. II. Jefferson Davis

a) Named president of the
Confederate States of
America on February
18, 1861.
b) Ordered the Confederate
attack on Fort Sumter, April
1861, which started the Civil
War

4. III. Ulysses S. Grant

a) Leader of the Union Army
b) Defeated the Confederate
Army in April 1865
c) Accepted the Confederate
surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse, VA to end the
Civil War.
d) 18th President of the United
States 1869-1877

5. IV. Robert E. Lee

a) Leader of Army of Northern
Virginia
b) Was offered the Union Army,
but refused to fight against
Virginia
c) Opposed secession, but didn’t
believe the Union should be
held together by force
d) Urged Southerners to accept
defeat at the end of the war
and reunite with the Union as
Americans

6. V. Thomas Stonewall Jackson

a) Confederate General
b) Earned his
nickname, “Stonewall” in
the Battle of Bull Run.