Who Were These People Flashcards
(5 cards)
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Blanche K. Bruce
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- Black Senator
- Established a school in Mississippi entered politics and became the superintendent of six schools.
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Hiram Revels
Who was he?
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- A Black senator ordained minister
- Started a school for freed Blacks in St. Louis Missouri
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John Wilkes Booth
Who was he?
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-was an actor,confederate sympathizer, assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford Theater,fled to Virginia by horse,cornered on April 26, 1865, Booth refused to surrender and was shot to death on that day.
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Horace Greeley
Who was he?
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Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer a politician,and an outspoken opponent of slavery
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Who were Redeemers?
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- People who saved the south from republican rule
- They wanted lower taxes, less public spending, and reduced government services. They drastically cut or sometimes eliminated social services started during reconstruction.
