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Date c. 1861 - c. 1877
Areas Of Involvement African Americans • Civil rights • reform • emancipation • suffrage
Related People James A. Garfield • Thaddeus Stevens • Benjamin F. Butler • Charles Sumner • Benjamin F. Wade • George W. Julian • Henry Wilson • Roscoe Conkling • Hannibal Hamlin • Zachariah Chandler • George Sewall Boutwell • Schuyler Colfax • Oliver H. P. T. Morton

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Thomas Nast: “Patience on a Monument”
Andrew Johnson
Black and white illustration of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial in 1868, showing a crowded courtroom with officials seated at tables and an audience in the gallery.
Henry Winter Davis
Thaddeus Stevens
Benjamin F. Butler
George Sewall Boutwell
Charles Sumner
Benjamin F. Wade
Zachariah Chandler
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