Clara Barton

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk.

Julia WardHowe

Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and author born in New York, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" outside of the United States, is a song using the music from the song "John Brown's Body."  She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage

Andrew Johnson(1808 – 1875)

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson served as president during the critical reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Hiram Rhodes Revels was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. Revels was the first African American United States Senator, filling the seat left vacant by Jefferson Davis in 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the Union

In United States history, scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War. Like the similar term "carpetbagger," the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates. The opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values of their southern heritage.

Carpetbaggers

Scalawags

In the history of the United States, a carpet-bagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War, during the Reconstruction era (1863–1877). Many white Southerners denounced them fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be politically allied with the Radical Republicans. "Carpetbagger" was used by Southerners as a pejorative term, referring to the carpet bags (a form of cheap luggage made from carpet fabric) which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders.

RadicalRepublicans

The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for punishing the former rebels, and emphasizing equality, civil rights, and voting rights for the "freedmen" (recently freed slaves). They supported the most radical plan for Reconstruction, which included the immediate passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and military occupation of the South.