| A | B |
|---|
| Andrew Johnson | took over after President Lincoln was killed/assassinated from the South THUS took a kind attitude toward bringing the South back into the NATION |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French Philosopher 1700s - checks & balances in govt. - more than 1 group - no one has total power |
| Blanche K Bruce | African American - urged Black Africans to stay in US, fight for equality, work hard |
| Booker T Washington | big into vocational area - Tuskegee Institute |
| Charles Sumner | from Massachusetts - wanted African Americans to be able to vote |
| George Washington Carver | African American Sciientist - into agriculture / farming - producing bigger and better crops |
| John Locke | French Philosopher 1700s - said people are the source of a government's power |
| Marcus Garvey | believed in racial pride - said African Americans should return to Africa |
| Rutherford B Hayes | won the 1877 election due to a compromise over how to handle southern votes |
| Samuel Tilden | lost the 1877 - but federal troops pulled out of the south |
| Thaddeus Stevens | tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson because he had thrown out one of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet members |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the US - who tried to keep the Union together - sent troops into South - had Plan for Reconstruction - never lived to see it through (10% Plan) |
