Hardin county, Kentucky

He is famous for helping free the slaves in america.

Lincoln was a lawyer who never had a degree.

Carter station,Tennessee

Trying to continue Lincoln's reconstruction plan

Andrew never went to school

point pleasant, Ohio

Grant supported the rights of African Americans. Although he supported Reconstruction, his administration was often ineffective.

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

Delaware, Ohio

Though an ardent Radical Republican early in the Reconstruction era, Hayes moderated his views and as president ended that era by withdrawing military support for Republican state governments in the South

His understandably protective mother allowed him neither to do household chores nor to play games with boys until he was nine.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Revels helped organize a pair of Negro regiments in Maryland

African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate

Georgetown, South Carolina

Rainey was reelected in 1872 and, during a debate on Indian rights in 1874, became the first black representative to preside over a session of Congress. Rainey gained reelection to Congress in 1874 and 1876.

In 1868, Rainey was elected as a delegate to the state constitutional convention and was elected to the State Senate in 1870

Beaufort, South Carolina

Piloting the ship for over a year before his defection, Smalls had traveled along the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida laying mines, transporting men and supplies, and surveying local rivers.

His mother worked as a house servant for her master John K. McKee, a wealthy plantation owner. McKee was probably Smalls's father.

Talbot county, Maryland

Fredrick Douglas helped slaves like him to read and write .

In 1877, Douglass visited his old owner Thomas Auld and the two supposedly reconciled.

Danville, Vermont

Serving on the joint committees on Reconstruction, he participated in the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 which provided for military occupation of the Southern states throughout the Reconstruction period

In 1826 Thaddeus Entered the iron manufacturing business

new York state

The presidential election of 1876 proved to be one of the most divisive in the nation's history. The campaign, which pitted Tilden against Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes, was a bitter one, and the election results promised to be close. On election night, Tilden won the popular vote and secured 184 uncontested electoral votes

Tilden's money when he passed away was combined with the city's Astor and Lenox libraries to form the renowned New York Public Library in 1895.

isle of wight, Georgia

With the aid of white acquaintances and free African Americans, Taylor broke Southern laws regulating the activity of slaves and learned to read and write, an accomplishment that would help her find employment in the Northern army.

Taylor immediately offered her services to the First South Carolina Volunteers, later known as the Thirty-Third United States Colored Troops

usler county, New york

Sojourner Truth was an African American equal rights activist and devout Christian who preached against slavery and for women’s suffrage.

Truth’s first language was Dutch.

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