Hardin country,Kentucky

he was the 16th president during the civil war and oversaw slavery.

he was 6 foot 4 and was the tallest us president

Raleigh, North Carolina

he kept slavery going instead of stopping it

one of the only people to be automatically president because the president that was there at the time died and he was vice president

Point Pleasant, Ohio, United States

he fought in the civil war

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

Delaware, Ohio, United States

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.

he was given an election.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

the first black to serve in the United States Senate.

ther Names: Revels, Hiram Rhodes

Georgetown, South Carolina

Rainy escaped with his wife to the West Indies and remained there until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Rainey took a job at a wood and coal factory.

Robert Smalls and the Planter became a national phenomenon.

he started out as a planter.

He was born into slavery and taught himself to read and write. After escaping slavery, he became a respected writer and speaker.

wrought 3 autobiographies

Re-elected to Congress on the Republican ticket

Became chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

Drafted the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

he was in congress

Famous as a lawyer, he amassed one of America's largest fortunes in railroads and mining.

His devotion to the public good makes him an important link between Jacksonian and modern reform.

Taylor, along with her uncle and eight cousins, fled to the Union lines and were immediately declared by Federal military authorities as "contraband" of war.

She was born as slave

A remarkable personality, she spoke with much effectiveness even though she remained illiterate. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass , she is regarded as a radical intellectual and influential activist.

originally called Isabella, b. Ulster

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