Key People- Unit 1: Reconstruction (Daemon Demar) by Daemon Demar

Abraham Lincoln

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He was born February 12 1809 and died April 15 1869

he is famous for freeing the slaves

and on interesting fact about hum is that he wasn't totally against slavery Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky

Andrew Johnson

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Ulysses S. Grant

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he as born April 27 1822 he died on July 23 1885

he was a general in the civil war

Grant lived at White Haven from 1854 to 1859. The plantation in Louisiana was named after Grant’s father-in-law’s ancestral home in Maryland, which was called White Haven. While living at White Haven, Grant tried to make a living as a farmer, but he had to ask his father for a loan as he did not have enough money to pay for supplies. Grant did not find success as a farmer and eventually left White Haven with his family.When the American Civil War began in 1861, Grant joined the forces again. He immediately became a well-known officer with hard-working, disciplined men. He was recognized for his efforts, and he became a brigadier general. He led troops to fight in battles in the Western Theater. At the outset of the war, Grant fought because he believed in keeping the Union whole. As the war continued, however, he became more interested in the abolition of slavery. He also supported the enlistment of African American troops. Grant rose through the ranks of the U.S. Army

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Rutherford B. Hayes won the Ohio governorship for the Republican Party in a year when the Republicans nationally fared poorly at the polls. Although they had overseen policy since the 1860 national election, had guided the nation through the maelstrom of civil war and the Reconstruction policy and politics, northern political opinion had grown weary of both the "southern problem" and Reconstruction--when the southern states were gradually reintegrated into the Union (See also, Andrew Johnson and Grant Administrations). Northern voters also had grown weary of the scandals and political embarrassments during the eight years of the Ulysses S. Grant administration. As a result, in 1875 and 1876, Democrats showed surprising strength at the polls in northern states, especially in the urban centers. Republicans needed a winner in 1876. Hayes was a popular figure in the key state of Ohio, a veteran of the Union Army in the American Civil War (1861-65) who had been wounded in combat, and a known moderate on issues such as civil service reform and currency reform. When he won the governorship of Ohio for the third time in 1876, his advisers told him he was well positioned with the party and the country for a shot at the Republican nomination for president that summer.

Hiram Revels

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Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901), African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate.

Hiram Revels was born of free parents on Sept. 27, 1822, in Fayetteville, N.C. His early education was limited, since it was illegal in North Carolina at that time to teach African Americans, slave or free, to read or write. As soon as he was able, he moved to Union County, Ind., to further his education at a Quaker seminary. After completing his work there, he moved to Ohio to attend another seminary. Eventually he moved to Illinois and graduated from Knox College at Bloomington. In 1845 he was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Md.

Joseph H. Rainey

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Some scholars, like Ivan Van Sertima in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976), claim that Africans had traveled to the New World long before the Europeans discovered its existence. Historical accounts affirm that Africans sailed with the Europeans as they explored and began to conquer the peoples of the Americans in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Perhaps the most famous of the African explorers was Stephen Dorantz or “Estevanico,” who pioneered an expedition in 1539 from Mexico into what is now Arizona and New Mexico. Estevanico, a Muslim from Morocco, had also traveled with “Cabeza de Vaca” to Florida in 1528. Settlements utilizing the enslaved African laborers in the Caribbean and Latin America predated North American communities by almost a century.

Robert Smalls

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This building is one of the finest works of John Anderson Lankfor, a pioneer black architect. The building was named a National Historical Landmark on December 8, 1976.This was the residence of Denmark Vesey, the Charleston carpenter whose plans to organize a slave insurrection were discovered in 1822. The Denmark Vesey House was declared a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was an African American writer, activist, and politician. Born into slavery, Douglass taught himself to read and write and used his skills to educate other slaves. After escaping slavery, he became a respected writer and speaker, publishing three autobiographies detailing his life experiences. Douglass believed in equality for all people and advocated for African American and women’s rights. He held several prominent positions in government in his later life before dying of a heart attack in February 1895.

Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Bailey around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He was born into slavery and was raised by his grandmother until age six. He then began working at the Wye House plantation in Maryland before the plantation.

Thaddeus Stevens

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This museum contains art, artifacts, and sculpture as well as materials covering the slave trade, the Civil War and Reconstruction, black churches, and the civil rights movement.This was the home of the black writer and social activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who participated in the nineteenth-century abolition, women's suffrage, and temperance movements. The house was named a National Historical Landmark on December 8, 1976.Harry T. Burleigh was a friend of famed Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and a composer／arranger in his own right. Born in 1866, Burleigh set to music many of the stirring poems of Walt Whitman and arranged such unforgettable spirituals as Deep River. He died in 1949

Samuel Tilden

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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal oral agreement between the Republican and Democratic political parties that settled the disputed presidential election of 1876. The agreement gave the election to the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) in exchange for considerations that included the removal of federal troops from the former Confederate states. Troop removal allowed the final Republican-held state governments to fall and the Democratic Party to have a firm hold on all southern states.

Susie King Taylor

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Although Susie King Taylor was born a slave, she managed to learn to read and write and displayed abilities usually denied one of her status. She joined a regiment during the Civil War as a nurse and taught soldiers to read and write. After the war, she helped form a Women's Relief Corps and compiled a list of war veterans living in Massachusetts. Her greatest accomplish was writing, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, a book that documents the successes of African Americans from the Civil War to the turn of the century despite racism and discrimination.

Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth was an African American equal rights activist and devout Christian who preached against slavery and for women’s suffrage. Truth was born into slavery but managed to escape before slavery was outlawed by the federal government in the late 1800s. She spent the remainder of her life fighting for equal rights for African Americans and women. Her most famous speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman?” examines the unique struggles of black women in society.

Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in the year 1797 to slaves living on a plantation in Ulster County, New York. She worked as a slave as a little girl and was sold to a new owner named John Neely when she was nine. Neely.

Requirements

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For each key person, press the 'edit' button and add:

A picture of them (use the orange image search button)
Birth Year to Death Year
State and Hometown
1 thing they are most famous for doing during Reconstruction
1 additional interesting fact about them

How Do I Research?

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Use the Lisha Kill library databases to complete your research. Click the link here to access it.

The password for all databases is: books

How Do I Submit in Google Classroom When I'm Done?

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Open the share settings by clicking the arrow on the right hand side.
Under "Collaborators", you'll see "Link Privacy". Click the drop down and select "Public".
Under "Links", click "Copy link to clipboard".
Paste the link into the assignment in Google Classroom and turn in.

1297903 — 2024-09-20 12:55:39 UTC

he was born July 8 1839 and died in 1944

he was born in new yourk

he moved to Ohio in 1853

he is famous for starting busisses