Matching: People of the Reconstruction Era
Match the following with their proper answer choices:
_____ Joseph H. Rainey
_____ Thaddeus Stevens
_____ Robert Smalls
_____ Frederick Douglass
_____ Hiram Revels
A. First Black man to serve in either house of Congress (as a senator).
B. The first Black man to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
C. Ran for Vice President with Victoria Woodhull as the Equal Rights Party candidate in 1872.
D. Radical Republican leader and fierce opponent of discrimination.
E. Former escaped slave who helped start South Carolina’s first public school system.
