Hardin County, Kentucky

He oversaw the 13th amendment

When Lincoln was 17 years old, his family moved to Indiana.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Andrew Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination

Andrew Johnson suffered a paralytic attack and died on July 31st.

Point Pleasant, Ohio

He was a president during reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant attended a military academy

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.

He moved from Ohio to Vermont in 1817.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

He was a U.S. Senate during reconstruction

First black man ro sit in the U.S Senate.

Georgetown, South Carolina

The first African American to serve in the U.S. House Of Representatives

Rainey retired from Congress in 1879. He was appointed as a special agent for the United States Treasury Department in Washington, DC He served until 1881, after which he worked for a banking and brokerage firm.

Beaufort, South Carolina

served as a pilot on a number of naval vessels operating in action against Confederate forces there

became the first black man to become a pilot in the United States Navy

Cordova, MD

oratory and incisive antislavery writings

he became the most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century

Danville, Vermont

Championed the rights of blacks

part of the anti-masonic party

New Lebanon, New York

He won the popular vote by 250,000 votes

He was a lawyer and business man

Isle of Wight, Georgia

the first black women to self publish her memoirs

she served the Union Army as a laundress, nurse and teacher

Rifton, New York

outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights

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

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