Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom's cabin in 1852, a book that described the life of an African American slave in her time. This book gained the north support due to it's anti-slavery attributes, and also hate in the south for the same reasons.
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (1851-1874) was an American senator and politician for Massachusetts who was also the leader for the anti-slavery forces in his state and a leader of the Radical Republicans. (The Radical Republicans, a group that worked to abolish slavery and free all slaves from the south, and to also obtain equal rights for all freed slaves.) Sumner criticized Lincoln for being too lenient on the south, and told Lincoln to free all of the slaves.
John Brown
John Brown (1800-1859) was a violent abolitionist from Connecticut who used force to try to free slave and abolish slavery. He was later hanged to death because he led forces against the south in Kansas and ordered his men to kill five slavery supporters. He was then captured during an attack on Harpers Ferry, a federal armory. He was tried for treason against the commonwealth of Virginia, the five murders, and inciting slave revolt.
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was a politician from Illinois who ran for presidency, but lost to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Douglas was nicknamed the "little giant" due to his short height and dominance in politics. Douglas was a Democrat and was responsible for the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a Republican president from march of 1861 to his assassination by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865, and was the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln served as president during the American Civil war, and was loved by the North yet, but hated by the South due to his Emancipation Proclamation, which ensured that all new states after his election were to remain free of slavery. Also, congress passed a law which made slavery illegal on all federal territory in 1862.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was Lincolns opposite, as he served as the leader of the confederacy during the American Civil War and was nothing compared to Lincoln. Davis destroyed the confederate economy and was an unorganized military strategist. He began as a senator for Mississippi; Davis also was an out-of-touch leader, not listening to the public or considering their opinions.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant ( 1822-1885) was the 18th president of the united states; his term running from 1869 - 1877. Grant ended the war at Appomattox and defeated the confederate military when Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union army. Grant abolished all slavery by defeating all of the remaining confederate soldiers, and also destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. Grant had two terms as president which made it easy for him to restabilize the economy and fix the damage done by war.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) was known for leading the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Lee was also the top graduate of the United States Military Academy, and son of military general Henry Lee (the third). President Lincoln Offered Lee a high ranking position in the Union Army, but Lee decided to stay with his home state instead and fought for the Confederacy. Eventually, Lee worked his way up the Confederate ranks and became a military adviser to Jefferson Davis and a commander of the Confederate forces. However, Lee was forces to surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was the general of the Union Army during The American Civil War. He used the ideas of a "total war" and his "scorched earth" idea to make the Confederate Army as weak as possible. The total war idea is the idea of mobilizing all available troops and resources to combat the opposition. The "scorched earth" idea was the idea of destroying any and all resources that the enemy might be able to use or recapture. Sherman was able to defeat the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, and captured the city of Atlanta, which helped president Lincoln get re-elected.