Hardin County, Kentucky

He is famous for helping free the slaves in America

He is our tallest president at 6'4

Raleigh North Carolina

He was unwilling to accept the will of Congress and new political realities of the post civil war world which led to impeachment.

He managed to escape removal of office by One vote.

Point Pleasant Ohio

He supported the rights of African Americans.

Grant and his men fought the Battle of Shiloh, which was one of the bloodiest of the war.

Delaware Ohio

He addressed issues like the end of reconstruction, civil service reform, foreign policy, and currency reform

He did not want to fun for a second term

Fayetteville North Carolina

He established a School for African American Freedmen in St. Louis

He was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate.

Georgetown South Carolina

He Presented some 10 petitions for a civil rights bill which would have guaranteed full constitutional rights to blacks and equal access to public accommodations

He retired from Congress in 1879 and worked at a firm and a wood and coal job until 1886 when he returned to Georgetown South Carolina.

Beaufort South Carolina

He used his National Reputation to gain political office in South Carolina as a state representative first then as a congressman in the house of representitaves.

He received $1,500 when his crew only got $400-$450 each.

Talbot County Maryland

He ran the American embassy in the Dominican Republic for two years making him the first black man to hold such an office

He wrote 3 auto-biographys of his life experiences

Danville Vermont

He drafted the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

He was in the iron manufacturing busissness

State of New York

His popularity and reformer image made the governor of New York and ideal choice to head the Democratic ticket in 1876

He died in Yonkers New York

Isle of Wright Georgia

She assisted the famous Civil War nurse Clara Barton, who founded the American Red Cross, in treating the heavy casualties following the Fifty-Fourth's assault upon Fort Wagner.

In 1902 she wrote memoirs of her duties performed in the civil war

Ulster County New York

She would give speeches about equal rights and woman's suffrage. She emphasized that it civil rights should be for all Black Americans regardless of their gender

Her first language was Dutch

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