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President Andrew Johnson

• 17th President following Lincoln’s assassination

• Congress did not like how easily he let Confederate states join the Union and that he vetoed Civil Rights bills

• Impeached for firing his Secretary of War, acquitted by one vote

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Jonathan Jasper Wright

• African American lawyer

• South Carolina Supreme Court judge during Reconstruction

• Taught freed slaves through the American Missionary Society, legal adviser for the Freedmen’s Bureau

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Davis Wasgatt Clark• Methodist Bishop• First president of the

Freedmen’s Aid Society (created to provide education and housing to African Americans and the poor in the South)

• Became one of the most popular Methodist leaders during the Reconstruction Era FAME!FAME!

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Hiram Revels

• First African American Senator in Congress

• Represented Mississippi during Reconstruction

• Ordained minister, excellent speaker

• Worked for equality for African Americans in Congress

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William D. Kelley• Served in the House of

Representatives for Pennsylvania

• Advocated for Civil Rights and Social Reform during Reconstruction

• Made famous speech against the slave trade

• Spoke up for voting rights for African Americans

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John Wilkes Booth

• Actor, Southern Sympathizer

• Assassinated President Lincoln at beginning of the Reconstruction Era

• Turmoil in country following assassination, Lincoln’s plan for a smooth transition for Confederacy gone!

• Shot and killed 12 days after Lincoln’s assassination.

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President Ulysses S. Grant• 18th President of the

United States and Union General during Civil War

• Enforced Civil Rights laws and fought against Ku Klux Klan as president

• Much economic turmoil and many scandals during his presidency

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Nathan Bedford Forrest• Lieutenant General in

Confederate Army• First Grand Wizard of Ku

Klux Klan, which terrorized African Americans and Republicans during Reconstruction

• Former planter and slave trader

• Accused of war crimes for massacre of Black Union army prisoners

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