Reconstruction Era Key Terms and Figures

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th President of the United States who led the country during the Civil War and worked to end slavery.

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Andrew Johnson

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17th President of the United States who succeeded Lincoln and was the first president to be impeached.

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Ulysses S Grant

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18th President of the United States and a leading Union general during the Civil War.

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Rutherford B Hayes

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19th President of the United States, whose election marked the end of Reconstruction.

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Sameul J Tilden

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Democratic candidate in the disputed 1876 presidential election.

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Booker T Washington

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Prominent African American educator and leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress during Reconstruction.

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Hiram Revels

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First African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

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Reconstruction

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The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.

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Freedmen

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Enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War.