| A | B |
|---|
| Lincoln | he proposed the Ten Percent plan |
| Andrew Johnson | one time slave owner from the South and former vice president, he also served Tennesse first as governor and then in Congress. He came up with the Presidential Reconstruction plan. |
| Booker T. Wahsington | African American leader from the late 1800's until his death in 1915; founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; encouraged African Americans to learn trades |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | a union general who set up a land-distribution experiment in South Carolina |
| Amos Moral | a freedman who stayed to work on the land he had been a slave on and got enough money to buy 400 acres of land that he sold peices of to other freedman |
| Charlotte Forten | a wealty black women from philadelphia and a supporter of black education, and taught education |
| Clara Barton | a famous civil war nurse who gave graphic testimony in Congress about injured black victims that she had treated |
| Charles Sumner | Massachusetts Senator, also a founder of the Republican party, a strong abolitionist |
| Thaddeus Stevens | a Pennsylvania congressman who was a stern man who tried to bring Johnson's presidency down |
| Edwin Stanton | Jonson tried to fire this Secretary of War whom Lincoln appointed |
| ulysses S. Grant | victorious Civil War general who in a close race beat Horatio Seymour, so now Congress and the President were allies, not enemies |
| Horatio Seymour | a former governor of New York, a democrat who lost to Grant in the presidential election |
| PBS Pinchback | a black governer who at first served as a state senator to lietenatnt governor to governor |
| Hiram Revels | the first African American elected to the Senate, he was from mississippi |
| Blanche K. Bruce | he was sent to the senate four years after Revels, he was a former slave |
| Holtzclaw family | a black family who did not have the freedom they hoped for, they did sharcropping, and then they did tenant farming which was even better but then they couldnt keep it up so they lost everything they owned |
| Henry Grady | a pro-buisness voice who urged the South to become a new industrialized economic place, the "New South" |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | first ever overall leader/"grand wizard" of KKK who was a general durring the war who killed lots of black people |
| Samuel Tilden | he had the support of the solid South in the election for presidency so he won the popular vote, but not presidency |
| Tutherford B. Hayes | won presidnecy, a republican, he won with the electoral vote |
