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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln served in the Illinois General Assembly for 8 years and in the U.S. For one term. He, then, was selected to be president in 1860. In 1865 he was assassinated.
*Lincoln desired a forging reconstruction.
*Lincoln proclaimed all persons in states of rebellion "Forever Free".
*Lincoln campaigned against his former general.
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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the former governor and senator of Tennessee. He became the 17th president of the United States, in 1865, after President Lincoln's assassination. Abraham Lincoln chose Johnson as his running mate in the 1864 election in order to persuade the Southern States to remain in the Union. *In 1868, Johnson was impeached by congress, but he was not removed from office. *Johnson didn't run for a second term. *First American president to be impeached. -
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln on April 14, 1865. During a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., Booth snuck into President Lincoln's box and shot him behind the left ear. -
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Radical Reconstruction
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Ulysses S. Grant
Grant took over after Andrew Johnson finished his first term being president. Grant led the Republicans in their effort to protect African-American Citizenship. In 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War. After the Civil War, Grant led the army's supervision of Reconstruction in the former confederate states.
*Union General and civil War Hero
*Nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"
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William "Boss" Tweed
In 1868, Tweed became grand sachem (leader) of Tammany Hall and was also elected to be the New York State Senate. The Tweed ring began to financially drain the city of New York through faked leases, false vouchers, extravagantly padded bills, and multiple other schemes set up and controlled by the ring. Tweed was at last tried, after stealing tons of money, and convicted on charges of forgery and larceny in 1873. He was released in 1875, but soon after his release he was arrested again. -
Works Cited
Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln's Picture- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth- http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/john-wilkes-booth
Picture of John Wilkes Booth- http://www.biography.com/people/john-wilkes-booth-9219681
Andrew Johnson- https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/andrewjohnson
Picture of Andrew Johnson- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
Ulysses Grant and Picture of Ulysses Grant- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presiden
