Hardin country,Kentucky

civil war that preserved the union,ended slavery.

at 6 foot, 4 inches,Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president.

Raleigh,North Caroline.

proceeded to reconstruct the former confederate states while Congress was not in session in 1865.

Andrew Johnson was born into poverty and never attended school.

Point Pleasant, Ohio.

He worked to reconcile the North and South also attempting to protect the rights of newly freed black slaves.

Grant's given name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant.

Delaware,Ohio.

Hayes implemented modest civil service reforms that laid the groundwork for further reform in the 1880s and 1890s.

He was the first president to travel to the west coast.

Fayetteville,North Carolina.

The Mississippi state legislature sent him to fill a vacancy in the U.S senate during Reconstruction,and he quickly became an outspoken opponent of racial segregation.

Became the first African American senator in 1870.

Georgetown,South Carolina.

first African-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.He dedicated himself to the passage of civil rights legislation.

Beaufort,South Carolina.

Commandeered a Confederate ship and delivered its 16 black men,women and children passengers from slavery to freedom.smalls became the first Black man to become a pilot in the United States Navy.

Talbot,County,Maryland

Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war's outcomes.

Douglass was born with the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.

Danville,Vermont.

In December 1863,Stevens assisted in drafting the Thirteenth Amendment,which would finally abolish slavery throughout the United States.

He was born with a clubfoot.

New Lebanon,N.Y.

Samuel Tilden was a lawyer,governor of New York,and Democratic presidential candidate in the disputed election of 1876.His education was attained at Yale University,and at New York.

Roslindale,Massachusetts.

Being the first black nurse during the American Civil war.

First black educator to teach openly in a school for formerly enslaved students.

Ulster Country,New York.

Lobbied the U.S. government to Grant land to newly free black men and women. A formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition,temperance,and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century.

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