Modgevile Kentucky

he helped pass the 13th Amendment

Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer even though he didn't have a degree

North Carolina, United States

Hiram Revels was a native of North Carolina.

Revels helped organize a pair of black regiments in Maryland.

Talbot County, Maryland

He recruited Black men to fight in the U.S. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Douglass’s marriage to white activist Helen Pitts was opposed by their families.

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2. Birth Year to Death Year

3. State and Hometown

4. 1 thing they are most famous for doing during Reconstruction

5. 1 additional interesting fact about them

Raleigh, North Carolina

As the only man from a Confederate state to remain in Congress, Johnson was like hero in the North. In 1862.

Andrew Johnson became president by accident when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

Georgetown South Carolina

He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person ) to serve in the United States Congress.

Rainey worked as a barber in South Carolina

Danville, Vermont

Thaddeus was responsible for funding the war effort and later Reconstruction.

Thaddeus Stevens spent his childhood in Danville before moving to Pennsylvania as a young man.

The password for most databases is: books

Point Pleasant, Ohio

Grant supported the African american's rights. Even though he supported Reconstruction, his administration was mostly ineffective.

Ulysses Grant & his people have fought in the Battle of Shiloh, the deadliest Battle in the civil war

Beaufort South Carolina

He helped rebuild his state and nation during the reconstruction.

Smalls was the first black commissioned officer in the Union Army

New Lebanon, New York

Samuel was a politician who was a candidate for one of the most threatening elections.

In his will he left 3 million dollars toward the establishment of a free public library in New York City

Delaware Ohio

Hayes consistently supported Radical Republican Reconstruction measures.

"An act to relieve certain disabilities of women" was signed by Rutherford in 2/15/1879 which open eligibility to practice before the supreme court to any female lawyer with good morals.

Isle of Wight, Georgia

Taylor was considered to be the first Black woman to teach in a school solely dedicated to educating former slaves.

Taylor was the only Black woman to publish a memoir of her Civil War experiences.

Rifton, New York

Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history.

Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.