Conflict across America KEY PEOPLE

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Colonel Chivington
He led his man to attack the camp at Sand Creek, near Fort Lyon. Found to have planned it, but not punished.
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Abraham Lincoln
Elected President in 1860. Leader of the Union in the war. Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy, 1861-5. Imprisoned for 2 years after civil war.
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John Brown
Attacked pro-slavery settlement during Bleeding Kansas. Tried to raise Harpers Ferry. Hanged for treason 1859.
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Harriet Tubman
Escaped slavery and helped secret network, Underground Railroad (which helped 50,000 slaves escape 1840-60).
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Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', 1851. Sold 1.2 million copies by 1853. Increased anti-slavery feeling in the north.
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Elected President in 1860. Leader of the Union in the war. Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth

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Abraham Lincoln

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President of the Confederacy, 1861-5. Imprisoned for 2 years after civil war.

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Attacked pro-slavery settlement during Bleeding Kansas. Tried to raise Harpers Ferry. Hanged for treason 1859.

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Escaped slavery and helped secret network, Underground Railroad (which helped 50,000 slaves escape 1840-60).

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