people chart maybe 11

Thaddeus Stevens

American buyer and politician, he was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction effort and was an opponent and critic of Andrew Johnson policies.

John Wilkes Booth

Actor and confederate supporter who assassinated A. Lincoln.

Andrew Johnson

American politician who became the 17th president of US upon the assassination of Lincoln. He was impeached for his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction and held into office by a one-vote margin.

Hiram Revels

American clergyman, educator, and politician, he became the first African American in the US Senate.

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th president of the US: he was a civil war general and hero and, in the disputed presidential election of 1876, he was chosen president by a special electoral committee.

Benjamin Wade + Henry Davis

Republicans who wrote a bill criticizing Lincoln’s actions.

Alexander Stephens

Vice President of the confederacy

Edwin Stanton

Lincoln’s secretary of war

Samuel J. Tilden

The former governor of NY, ran in the election of 1876 and won both popular and electoral votes but lost the majority by 1.