Abraham Lincoln was born in Harden County, Kentucky.

Abraham Lincoln died a little before Reconstruction but he was famous for the Emancipation Proclamation.

Even though Lincoln was a lawyer, he did not have a college degree.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, N.C.

Andrew Johnson was famous for getting the Reconstruction process started

Andrew Johnson taught himself to read and write, with the help of Eliza McCardle.

Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio

Grant was famous for spending most of his money on the Reconstruction

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

Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio

Rutherford B. Hayes was famous for starting off being president by the Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes' father and brother died while he was young

Hiram Revels was born on Sept. 27, 1822, in Fayetteville, N.C.

Hiram Revels was famous for making a school for African American freedmen

His full biography is unknown

Joseph H. Rainey,was born on June 21, 1832, in Georgetown, South Carolina

Joseph H. Rainey was famous for being the first black member of the House of Representatives

During the Civil War, Rainey was drafted to work on Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor, But Rainey and his wife escaped to the West Indies and stayed there until the end of the Civil War

Robert Smalls was born on 5 April 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina

Robert Smalls was famous for piloting the "planter," a gunboat.

Robert Smalls was born a slave

Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County, Maryland

Frederick Douglass was famous for being an African American writer, activist and politician

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery

Danville, Vermont

Thaddeus Stevens participated in the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Thaddeus Stevens did everything in his power to prevent the Fugitive slave act from being passed and failed

New Lebanon, New York

In the presidential election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, ran against the Democrat Samuel J. Tilden

He died a bachelor at the age of 72, having never had a relation with a woman

Isle of Wight, Georgia

Susie King Taylor was an African American Southern women who served the Union army as a laundress, nurse, and teacher

Susie King Taylor was born a slave

Rifton, New York

Sojourner Truth was an African American equal rights activist and Christian who went against slavery and women’s suffrage

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but managed to escape

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

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