Reconstruction Quick Match

His election caused the Southern states to begin to secede; known for his use of Emergency Powers during the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and Second Inaugural Address; assassinated 5 days after the Confederate surrender ending the Civil War

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

Ruthless Union commander; captured Atlanta, then proceeded to destroy 60 miles of Georgia, especially targeting railroads and other important infrastructure

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William T. Sherman

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• Alexander Stephens

Assumed the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; conflicted with Congress; impeached but acquitted of charge

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Samuel Tilden

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

Union military commander who won victories when others had failed and defeated Lee; President of the United States during Reconstruction Era between 1869-1877

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

Temporary agency created after the Civil War, worked to provide food and medical care, to ensure justice for the freedmen, to help them resettle and find employment, to manage abandoned or confiscated property, and to establish schools

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

Stated no American man could be denied the right to vote on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (1870)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Granted citizenship to Black Americans with no interference in their civil and political rights (1868)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Outlawed slavery and other forms of involuntary servitude (1865)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Wished to punish the South for its secession from the Union; pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to Black Americans; made it difficult for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Radical Democratic Reconstruction

Competed in controversial presidential election, by which Congressional Electoral Commission made a compromise to award the Republican candidate the presidency in exchange for Union troops being removed from the South and effectively ending Reconstruction

• Abraham Lincoln & George McClellan

• Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson

• Samuel Tilden & Rutherford B. Hayes