AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 15 Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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| 8453280175 | Jay Gould | In 1869, this Wall Street financier obtained the help of President Grant's brother in law, to corner the gold market. The Treasury Department broke the scheme, but after he had already made a huge profit. (p. 300) |  | 0 |
| 8453280177 | William (Boss) Tweed | This New York City politician, arranged schemes that allowed he and his cronies to steal about $200 million dollars from New York. He was eventually sentenced to prison in 1871. (p. 301) |  | 1 |
| 8453280180 | Thomas Nast | New York Times political cartoonist who exposed the abuses of the "Boss" Tweed ring. Tweed was eventually arrested and imprisoned in 1871. (p. 310) |  | 2 |
| 8453280182 | Horace Greeley | In the presidential election of 1872, both the Liberal Republicans and the Democrats made this newspaper editor their nominee. He lost the election to Ulysses S. Grant, he died just days before the counting of the electoral vote count. (p. 301) |  | 3 |
| 8453280186 | Rutherford B. Hayes | He won the presidential election of 1876, which was a highly contested election. He was a Republican governor from Ohio. (p. 302) |  | 4 |
| 8453280187 | Samuel J. Tilden | In the presidential election of 1876, this New York reform governor was the Democrat nominee. He had gained fame for putting Boss Tweed behind bars. He collected 184 of the necessary 185 electoral votes, but was defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes, when all of the electoral votes from the contested states of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana went to Hayes. (p. 303) |  | 5 |
| 8453280192 | Andrew Johnson | The 17th President of the United States from 1865 to 1869. This Southerner from Tennessee was Lincoln's vice president, and he became president after Lincoln was assassinated. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. (p. 297) |  | 6 |
| 8453280197 | Charles Sumner | The leading Radical Republican in the Senate from Massechusetts. (p. 295) |  | 7 |
| 8453280198 | Thaddeus Stephens | This Pennsylvania Congressman was a Radical Republican. He hoped to revolutionize Southern society through an extended period of military rule in which blacks would be free to exercise their civil rights, receive education, and receive lands confiscated from planter class. (p. 295) |  | 8 |
| 8453280199 | Benjamin Wade | Radical Republican who endorsed woman's suffrage, rights for labor unions, and civil rights for northern blacks. (p. 295) |  | 9 |
| 8453280202 | Edwin Stanton | He was President Andrew Johnson's secretary of war. President Johnson believed the new Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional and he challenged the law, by dismissing him from his position. This led to Johnson's impeachment. (p. 297) |  | 10 |
| 8453280206 | Blanche K. Bruce | During the Reconstruction era, he represented Mississippi as a Republican U.S. Senator, from 1875 to 1881. He was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. (p. 298) |  | 11 |
| 8453280207 | Hiram Revels | During the Reconstruction era, this black politician, was elected to the Mississippi senate seat that had been occupied by Jefferson Davis before the Civil War. (p. 298) |  | 12 |
