Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant (Info for Character Maps)

Abraham Lincoln

 

Role: President of U.S., 1861-1865

Wins the Election of 1860 over Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas and become the 16th President of the U.S. He was also the first Republican to run for president.

Southerners were afraid Lincoln would end slavery and said they would secede if he became President. They did so before Lincoln was inaugurated.

Lincoln later ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.

Ulysses S. Grant

Role: Union Army Commander

Grant commanded the Union army during the later years of the Civil War.

He won an important battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and later forced Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Like Andrew Jackson, Grant used his military fame to become a successful politician. He went on to become the 18th President of the U.S.