| A | B |
|---|
| Rutherford B Hayes | Republican who became president in 1876 through a deal between Party leaders |
| Abraham Lincoln | president who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction |
| Edwin Stanton | secretary of war whose firing led to Andrew Johnson's impeachment |
| Ulysses S Grant | president whose administration was plagued with scandal |
| William T Sherman | Union general who promised freed slaves who followed his army "40 acres and a mule" |
| Horace Greeley | New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election |
| Hiram Revels | the first African-American U.S. senator |
| Thaddeus Stevens | House representative who was the leader of the Radical Republicans |
| Samuel J Tilden | Democratic candidate for president in 1876 who won the popular vote but lost the election |
| Andrew Johnson | president who vetoed important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation |
