Chapter 14 People Review

Zachary Taylor - Nominated by the Whigs as Presidential candidate

John C. Calhoun - A pale, gray-headed figure who shivered and coughed with tuberculosis

Daniel Webster - Remembered for his Seventh of March Speech

Franklin Pierce - Defeated Whigs candidate General Winfield Scott

Harriet Tubman - An escaped slave from Maryland

James Buchanan - Bought a healthy respect for the Constitution

Stephen Douglas - Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act; promoter of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

General Robert E. Lee - Confederate General who led the charge at Cemetery Ridge, captured John Brown before the raid occurred; commander of the Confederate forces

Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate States; Senator from Mississippi who became the first and only president of the Confederate States of America

General Ulysses S. Grant - Union commanding general at the end of the Civil War; after the Confederates surrendered, he allowed them to keep their animals and rifles. Great general of the Union Army; later served as Republican President from 1869 to 1877

General William Tecumseh Sherman - Union General who led the March to the Sea from Atlanta; burned Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbia

Clara Barton - Helped organize the American Red Cross; was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"

John Wilkes Booth - Shot President Abraham Lincoln

Rutherford B. Hayes - President when Reconstruction ended in the South

Booker T. Washington - The great American educator; founded Tuskegee Institute