Born Hardin county, Kentucky

Famous for giving the Gettysburg address.

He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth after the war.

Johnson was born in Raleigh, north Carolina.

He was the seventeenth president of the United States.

He married Eliza McArdle who was the daughter of a Scottish shoemaker.

Grant was born on April 27, in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

He was the oldest of six kids in the family.

He served two terms as president and was known for his skill on the battlefield.

He was born in Delaware, Ohio

Hayes was the nineteenth president of the United States.

His mother chose a girl for him, her name was Lucy Ware Webb

Revels was born in Fayetteville County, NC

He was the first black to serve in the United States Senate.

He represented the state of Mississippi

Rainy was born in Georgetown county, South Carolina.

Becoming the first black to serve in the house of representatives.

He died of a congested fever at the age of 55.

Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Between 1875 and 1887 he served five terms in the house of representatives.

Smalls was hired to work aboard the Confederate steamship Planter.

Frederick Douglass was an African American writer.

Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland.

He was born into slavery and was raised by his grandmother until age six.

Thaddeus Stevens fought to end slavery.

Stevens was born on April 4, near Danville, Vt.

Stevens was elected to the state legislature in 1833 and was reelected six times.

Tilden was born into a wealthy family in new Lebanon, New York.

Tilden faced republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes running for president.

Tilden won the popular vote by 250,000 votes. But, 20 electoral votes were in dispute, leaving both Tilden and Hayes without a majority of the electoral vote.

Susie King Taylor, teacher and nurse, achieved many firsts in a lifetime of overcoming adversity.

She was born in Liberty County, Georgia.

She attended two secret schools taught by black women.

She was born enslaved in Ulster county, New York.

When she was nine years old, her owner died, and she was sold.

In 1827 Isabella discovered that her former owner had illegally sold her five-year-old son into slavery in The South.

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