Key People- Unit 1: Reconstruction (Fahmida Any) by Fahmida Any

Abraham Lincoln

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2/12/1809 - 4/15/1865

He was the 16th president during the Civil War and he saw the Abolition Slavery.

His parents live in a cabin in Kentucky.

He was assassinated right when Reconstruction started.

He was a lawyer that didn't have a college degree.

Andrew Johnson

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12/29/1808 - 7/31/1875

He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina

He was a Congressman/Governor and then became Vice President.

Congress passed a series of four reconstruction acts establishing military rule and conditions of readmission for ten Southern states.

He became a public figure during the Civil war.

Ulysses S. Grant

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4/27/1822 - 7/23/1885

Ulysses S. Giant was a president of the US.

He was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio

During his presidency he supported the rights of African Americans.

Grant and his men fought the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest war in history.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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10/4/1822 - 1/17/1893

Hayes was a president of United States.

He was born in Delaware, Ohio.

He was elected governor of Ohio and proved a capable and economical administrator.The presidential election of 1875 between Hayes and Samuel Tilden was the most bitterly contested in the US history.

Hiram Revels

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9/27/1827 - 1/16/1901

An African American clergyman and university administrator, the first black American to sit in the US Senate.

He was born to free parents on Fayetteville, N.C

Revels served African American Churches in Ohio, Kentucky when he was a minister.

He was removed from his post for politician reasons but was appointed president of Alcorn again in 1876

Joseph H. Rainey

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Robert Smalls

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Frederick Douglass

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Samuel Tilden

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Susie King Taylor

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Sojourner Truth

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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.