Hardin county, kentucky

He was the 16th president during the civil war and oversaw abolition of slavery

• Lincoln, who was a lawyer, did not have a college degree.

near the border of North and South Carolina.

He earned the rank of general in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) and became a war hero for his actions at the Battle of New Orleans.

• Jackson was known for his violent temper, which led him to engage in many duels throughout his lifetime.

in Point Pleasant, Ohio

he United States and general during the American Civil War.

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

Delaware, Ohio, United States

Hayes’s life of genteel idleness ended with the Civil War

Graduating from Kenyon College with highest honors in 1842

Fayetteville, North Carolina

where he became minister of a church and principal of a school for blacks. When the Civil War began in 1861, he helped organize the first two regiments of black soldiers from the state of Maryland.

Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901), African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate.

Georgetown, South Carolina

During the Civil War, Rainey was drafted to work on Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor and serve passengers on a Confederate ship

Joseph H. Rainey, the first black member of the House of Representatives

Beaufort, South Carolina

Smalls was received by the Union navy as a contraband of war.

To honor the feat, Congress passed a bill bestowing a cash prize to Smalls and the other crew members; Smalls received $1,500 while the crew received $400-$450 each.

albot County, Maryland

Frederick Douglass was an African American writer, activist, and politician

Douglass’s marriage to white activist Helen Pitts was opposed by their familie

Danville, Vermont

Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), American congressman, was the leading Radical Republican in the Civil War era

In 1861 Stevens became chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and helped to secure passage of the legislation needed to finance the Civil War

New Lebanon, New York,

American politician Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886), a governor of New York and Democratic presidential candidate, typified genteel reform in the "gilded age."

During the 1840s Tilden associated with the reformist, antislavery wing of the New York Democrats. When James K.

Wight, George

During the Civil War, African American nurse Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) aided the Union Army. She later helped freedmen and Civil War veterans

Susie King Taylor was born into slavery on Aug. 6, 1848,

Battle Creek, Michigan

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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