Hardin County,Kentucky

He was the 16th president during the Civil war and over saw the abolition of slavery.

He was the tallest american president.

Tennessee

He became president of the United States at the end of the Civil War after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,

he grew up with a poor family

Point Pleasant, Ohio

He was a general during the civil war

He was the oldest of six children in the family. When Grant was only a year old.

Delaware, Ohio

He started in public controversy and ended with his having alienated the major factions of his own party. Winning the election

He's presidency signaled the end of a key and controversial era in American history

Fayetteville County, NC.

He was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate

Two days after Mississippi is readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870, Hiram Revels, a minister and Civil War chaplain,

South Carolina

first black member of the House of Representatives

Rainey's father purchased his family's freedom and moved them to Charleston in 1846.

South Carolina

He helped rebuild his state and nation during the reconstruction.

He was born a slave and made a daring escape during the civil war

Talbot County, Maryland

Escaping slavery, he became a respected writer and speaker

He was born into slavery and taught himself to read and write

Danville, Vermont,

Was the leading Radical Republican in the Civil War era.

He controlled both houses of Congress toward the end of the Civil War

New Lebanon

Samuel was the Democratic candidate in perhaps the most controversial presidential election in American history

He was a governor of New York and Democratic presidential candidate,

born into slavery on a farm

She later helped freedmen and Civil War veterans.

aided the Union Army. She later helped freedmen and Civil War veterans.

Ulster County, New York.

Her most famous speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman?

managed to escape slavery before it was outlawed by federal government

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