Social Studies Chapter 6 Reconstruction Key People Extra Practice

Andrew Johnson

Abraham Lincoln's vice president, who later became the 17th president after Lincoln's death

Blanche K. Bruce

Formerly enslaved, this person made history as the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. In 1874, the Mississippi state legislature elected this person to be its representative in the U.S. Senate, making him the second African-American to hold the position. He served from 1875-1881, and thus this person became the first African-American citizen to work a full term in the United States Senate.

Andrew Johnson

He was impeached and tried by the Senate in the spring of 1868 and acquitted by one vote.

Beroth Eggleston

I came to Mississippi with the union army, and I later served as the chairman of the Constitutional Convention of 1868. I guided the delegates in drafting Mississippi's third and most democratic constitution.

Edward O. Ord

I was appointed as the first military governor of Mississippi during the Reconstruction period.

James L. Alcorn

I was elected governor of Mississippi in 1869 by the Republican party.

Abraham Lincoln

I was president of the United States during the American Civil War. I had a plan that would allow the southern states to re-enter the Union quickly and as easily as possible. An assassin's bullet destroyed my life and plan.

Hiram Revels

I was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate, and I represented the State of Mississippi.

Ulysses S. Grant

I was the first U.S. president to remove all the black Union troops from the military districts in the South.

Andrew Johnson

I was the first United States vice president to move into the presidency by the assassination of the former president. I wanted to readmit the Confederate states to the Union as soon as possible, but I wanted stronger laws regarding pardons to their government and military leaders. I also wanted the southern states to repeal their secession ordinances and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

Benjamin Humphreys

I was the governor of Mississippi in the latter part of 1865, and I was removed from office by union troops because of my service to the Confederacy.

Blanche K. Bruce

I was the second African American United States Senator from Mississippi, and the only black to serve a full term in the office until Senator Edward Brook's election in 1966.

James L. Alcorn

In 1871, this person resigned to succeed Revels, who becomes the first president of Alcorn state college, as U.S. Senator. In 1873, this person and Ames both ran for governor. Ames accused this person of deserting Republican policies and cooperating too much with conservative whites. He also charged that this person failed to protect blacks from the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ames won the governor's race

Hiram Revels

A black minister from Natchez to represent the state in the U.S Senate along with this person. This person, who migrates to Natchez from Missouri, was appointed to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis and became the first black to serve in the Senate.

Hiram Revels

A freedman his entire life, this person was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political orientation and oratorical skills honed from years as a preacher, Revels filled the vacant MS seat in the United States Senate in 1870.

James L. Alcorn

A native of Illinois who had lived in Mississippi since 1844, was elected governor. In his inaugural address, he denounced secession and pledged to be the governor of all people.

Edward O Ord

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, many in the North, including Ulysses S. Grant, wanted strong retribution on the Southern states. Grant called upon this person to find out if the assassination conspiracy extended beyond Washington, D.C. this person's investigation determined the Confederate government was not involved with the assassination plot. This helped greatly to quench the call for revenge on the former Confederate states and people.[

Andrew Johnson

After Lincoln's death, this person proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons.

James L. Alcorn

Although he was popular, white Mississippians did not accept his philosophy of equality. Under his leadership, however, the economy of the state improved, land values increased, the public school system was expanded and the laws of the stature revised to make it more democratic.

Edward O. Ord

As a young man, this person was considered a mathematical genius and was appointed to the United States Military Academy by President Andrew Jackson. His roommate at West Point was future general William T. Sherman.

Blanche K. Bruce

During his term, he attempted to desegregate the U.S. Army and in 1878 became chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company.

Edward O. Ord

Mississippi was placed in the Fourth Military District under the command of Major General.

Rutherford B. Hayes

My election as U.S. president ended Reconstruction in the South. I withdrew all the Union troops and abolished the military districts.

Andrew Johnson

Ordered most of the confiscated land its former owner

Blanche K. Bruce

Son of a slave mother and a white father, represented Mississippi in the U.S Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was born in Prince County, Virginia. During the Civil War, this person escaped and settled in Hannibal, Missouri, establishing the first school for blacks in the state. Second black to be in the Senate, and first black to finish their term.

Hiram Revels

This person also favored universal amnesty for former Confederates, requiring only their sworn loyalty to the Union.

Edward O. Ord

This person was present at the McLean house when Lee surrendered, and is often pictured in paintings of this event General in charge of Military District 4 under Congressional Reconstruction Conducts massive voter registration efforts in 1868

Blanche K. Bruce

This person, who also established The Floreyville Star, was appointed by Governor Acorns a county assessor for Bolivar County. This person introduced bills to halt the importation of alcoholic beverages and to pay "bounties" to black soldiers for their participation in the Civil War. He also called for Congress to investigate the allegations of violence and fraud in Mississippi's election.

James L. Alcorn

Twenty-eighth Governor of Mississippi: March 1870 to November 1871 This person was Mississippi's first elected Republican governor. This person's opposed secession in 1861 but like most other Mississippi Whigs, he served in the Confederate Army and supported the Confederacy. After the war, this person's advocated full civil rights for the former slaves, including the right to vote, the right to hold public office, and the right to testify in court.

Andrew Johnson

With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, this person became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views.

James L. Alcorn

this person was a "scalawag," that is, a white southerner who became a Republican after the Civil War. During his administration, the Mississippi Legislature established a state system of public education and founded Alcorn University, the first land-grant college for blacks in the United States. this person resigned in November 1871 to accept an appointment to the U. S. Senate. Two years later he again ran for governor but lost to Adelbert Ames.