Reconstruction Matching

Horace Greeley

newspaper editor, founder new york tribune, ran for president 1872 as liberal republican

Hiram Revels

first african american US senator, representative for mississippi during reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant

union general during civil war, 18th president

William T. Sherman

Union general known for his "march to the sea" during the civil war

Abraham Lincoln

16 president, led country during civil war, issues emancipation proclamation, assistant 1865

Andrew Johnson

17th president, succeeded lincoln, faced impeachment over his lenient reconstruction policies

Thaddeus Stevens

radical republican leader in congress, pushed for strict reconstruction policies and civil rights for freed slaves

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th president, ended reconstruction as part of compromise of 1877

Samuel J. Tilden

democratic candidate in the disputed 1876 presidential election election, won popular vote but lost electoral college after compromise 1877

Edwin Stanton

lincoln's secretary of war, firing andrew johnson led to johnson's impeachment