Thaddeus Stevens - correct answer ✔✔-Most important Radical Republican
-Former Senator; Abolitionist
-Believed in equal protection of laws
-Led impeachment movement, refused to compromise
-Began working against slavery in 1838
-Deemed Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan "too lenient"
Charles Sumner - correct answer ✔✔-Senator, abolitionist
-Leader of Republican Party
-Beaten with cane by Preston Brooks
Andrew Johnson - correct answer ✔✔-17th president, assumed office after Lincoln assassination
-First president to be impeached
-Grew up poor, not educated
Samuel Tilden - correct answer ✔✔New York Democrat, ran against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes for
the presidency in 1876 and won the popular vote by a very small margin. He was denied the office after
a congressional commission voted to relinquish the Presidency in return for the end of reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes - correct answer ✔✔-19th president (Rep); former criminal lawyer
-Oversaw end of Reconstruction
-Compromise of 1877, Great RR Strike
-First President to have college educated wife; Telephone and typewriter in white house
Sitting Bull - correct answer ✔✔"Medicine man"; Native American chief of Sioux; Moved to Canada in
seek of fair treatment, Canadians did not support them; Forced to negotiate on reservation with US,
however arrested for the killing of Gen. Custer
, Gen. George Custer - correct answer ✔✔US Cavalry officer in Civil War; led some 200 men to their
deaths in the Battle of Little Bighorn
John D. Rockefeller - correct answer ✔✔Founder of Standard Oil company; Stressed importance of
kerosene and gasoline
Andrew Carnegie - correct answer ✔✔Founder of Carnegie Steel; Sells company to JP Morgan for $480
million
J.P. Morgan - correct answer ✔✔Purchased Carnegie Steel; changes name to U.S. Steel; One of most
famous financiers of all time
Samuel Gompers - correct answer ✔✔Founder, first president of AFL
William Jennings Bryan - correct answer ✔✔Delivered Cross of Gold speech; defeated for presidency by
McKinley
William McKinley - correct answer ✔✔Sparked the Spanish-American war for Spain's atrocities in Cuba;
President during annexation of PR, Guam, Phillippines; Assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt - correct answer ✔✔26th President after assassination of McKinley; Took on big
industries, monopolies, trusts, etc. in the "Square Deal"
Issues of Reconstruction - correct answer ✔✔-Reincorporate the Confederate states (punishment, etc.)
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