...Do you know how the 15th Amendment was treated, and how people avoided it. The 15th amendment allowed the black to vote and if it wasn’t for the civil war African Americans still might not be able to vote. The 15th Amendment was passed by Representatives on February 25, 1869 by a vote of 39 to 13. The amendment did help a lot of slaves, but even though they were given the right to vote, some people put obstacles in their way. A poll tax, which is a tax put on voting, block slaves from voting (poll tax). Most slaves didn’t have much money so, putting a tax on voting, targeted most African Americans from voting. Even though most slave couldn’t make money, some could make money by having special abilities or such. Those how made money though, would usually want to spend it on their freedom not on voting. Poll taxes were pretty harsh, but there were still some that are way worse....
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...Lincoln: The Nation’s Strongest President The word “strong” has a different meaning to each individual. Some think of someone who can bench-press 500 pounds, others think of a tree that can withstand even the strongest hurricane. Rarely do people realize that true strength comes from within, and there is no better example of this than former president Abraham Lincoln. Morally sound, humble, and honest, Lincoln possesses the qualities of someone who is truly strong. Some may argue that a man who never physically fought in a war or never procured a document that saved the nation couldn’t be considered strong. While it’s true that Lincoln never did any of these, he did help America heal from the Civil War, handle debates with words and not fights, and spark the addition of three...
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...The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. For four years it slogged on, and when it was finished there was much jubilation. On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, his wife, Major Henry Rathbone and his date Clara Harris attended Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in downtown Washington D.C. However, their revelry was cut short when famous actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln and escaped from Ford’s Theatre. For 12 days, manhunters were searching for the most wanted man in America. The 12 day manhunt culminated at the Garrett farm in Northern Virginia with a fiery barn that was an inferno, a dead assassin who was at his prime in life, and a grieving nation left to heal its wounds. John Wilkes Booth committed the...
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...The Civil War was known as the “crossroads of our being”. This event has helped us define who we are as a nation. During the Gettysburg Address of 1860, Lincoln said that this war was “a new birth of freedom” but, would the Civil War really be the new birth of freedom? As our nation expanded from 1787 to 1861, there were a lot of different economic, political, and cultural problems that occurred. The northern, southern, and western states all had disagreements and different opinions over these topics, this would soon lead to the decision of the southern states to secede from the union, because they had a different perspective for a better way of life. Economy for the north and south is defined has how one of the regions is involved with the...
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...A war is a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. Every war has its reasons weather it be a good and acceptable reason or a bad reason. If people are going to be killed and the country itself be damaged because of the war, people will want to hear a reason. Some wars are inevitable and some are not. It all depends on its cause. The American Civil War is thought to be an inevitable war. Many are convinced that there was no other way to solve the tension between the North and the South. The difference in thinking of slavery of both sides was one of the reasons for the build up of the tension between the two sides but it was not the only reason as some may think. Economical differences and political differences also led to the tension between the two sided which resulted in a war. The war was considered inevitable because the South would not give up slavery, and the North would not let the South separate from the Union. The part slavery had on the Civil War cannot be ignored but it should not be responsible for the main cause. It was the difference in the North and the South that slavery created which led to the war. Slavery led to economic differences. In the South, slavery became a way of life. It was a large part of their society. Because they were farmers, they needed many workers to plant and gather. The South thought that if slavery was to be abolished, than their economy would fall because there would be no workers....
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...Mexican-America war: included California as well as parts of other Western territories. Fire-Eaters: A general unofficial term used to describe a group of Southern politicians who were extremely in favor of slavery and thus advocated for secession. Underground Railroad: A route that slaves took to secretly escape from their masters to freedom. Harriet Tubman: A particularly famous conductor of the railroad, helping to sneak hundreds of slaves out of servitude. William H. Seward: A somewhat radical politician who advocated for the abolition of slavery on moral grounds. Higher Law: The stance that...
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...Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 close to Hodgenville, Kentucky. His family moved to Indiana in 1816. When Lincoln was ten his mother died from poisoned milk. His father remarried the next year to Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham liked her very much and even later recalled her "his angel mother. (Encarta)" Abraham had less than one year of formal education during his life. He was self-educated and taught himself how to read and write. When he was not in school, he worked on the frontier farm clearing out forests with his axe. When Abraham Lincoln was 21 he and his family moved to Illinois. There he worked on a farm growing corn. But more importantly here was where he gave his first political speech. In 1830, the same year his family moved to Illinois, he went to a political rally and was convinced to talk for a candidate on his behalf. According to a witness there, Lincoln "was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of the day. (Encarta)." Abraham Lincoln's political career started in the spring of 1832 by running for a seat in the Illinois' House of Representatives. However an unusual turn of events happened a month after he announced he was running. The store he was working at went bankrupt and he lost his job. Very shortly thereafter Native Americans rebelled and the governor of Illinois asked for volunteers to help put this down to which Lincoln promptly volunteered for. He never experienced actual combat, but during his 3 month time period he served...
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...The civil war was a result of the deep-rooted divide between people of the north and south. The abolitionists and whigs in the north were crashing with democrats and southerners. Neither side wanted to compromise their belief. The statement above is mostly true. People had extreme beliefs and were willing to carry out violence for them, and there were failures of leadership on both sides. However, the reasons why they believe the war was not inevitable, are actually why it was inevitable. Extremism was running rampant across the U.S. on both sides of the spectrum. There were strong believers of slavery and people who were hellbent on stopping it. This great division of people and beliefs was recognized by Abraham Lincoln in document...
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...On April 12th of 1861, the Northern and Southern regions of the United States were at war. For decades, the North and South had many disagreements, and grew further apart as more events occurred. The North and South were two different worlds, yet one country. The two regions had different cultures, and ways of living, and sectional issues began to arise, splitting the once unified nation into two, a Union and a Confederacy. This outbreak of the American Civil War was irrepressible; the economies of the North and the South were very different, there were unresolvable social disagreements between the two regions, and there was a strong political divide between the North and the South, which all led to an inability to compromise, and in turn...
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...ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sixteenth President of the United States By: Jacquelyn McRae Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. The family moved to Indiana and 8 year old Abe helped his father build another log house. A year later his mother died and the house was very empty. His father remarried and in addition to his sister Sarah, who was 3 years older, there were now 3 more children in the family. Lincoln had less than a year of schooling. Books were scarce and so was paper. He worked his arithmetic problems on a board and cleaned the board with a knife so he could use it again. The family owned a Bible and he spent many hours reading it. He would copy parts of it in order to memorize it. Sometimes he would walk for miles to borrow a book. One of his favorite books was "The Life of George Washington". By the time he was 17, he knew he wanted to be a lawyer. He would walk 17 miles to the county courthouse in order to watch the lawyers work. He sat in the back of the courtroom and watched them as they shook their fists and became red in the face. Then he would go home and think about what he had seen. When he was 21 years old he moved to Illinois and spent a year laboring on a farm. It is said that he and his fellow-laborer split 3,000 rails in that year 1830. He also managed a flat-boat on the Ohio River Every time he got a new job he would try to work on a skill which would help him when he became a lawyer. When he was...
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...Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 of February in Talbot, Maryland. He was named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey but changed it when he became a free man. He started to call himself Douglass to throw off slave hunters. He tried to escape slavery twice before he actually got away. On his successful escape he had help from a women name Anna Murray she would later become his wife. Douglass escaped slavery at the age of twenty. He is one of the most productive abolitionist speakers and he strongly affected American social policies by writing biographies of his life as a slave also by helping women’s rights, and convincing colored people to become soldiers in the Union Army. Frederick learned how to read and write at a high level...
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...What Caused The Civil War? “Civil War was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.” – Frederick Douglass. The Civil War was consist of the South vs the North. The Civil War was also known as the “War Between States”, happen in 1861 and lasted for four brutal years. Why did this happen and for a nation that should've been together? The three main causes of the Civil War between the North and the South were abusive slavery, contradicting political views, and the chaotic economy. The first main cause of the Civil War was conflict between the North and the South about slavery. Both sides had different point of views about slavery. North was anti-slavery and the South was pro-slavery. Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist, in his speech, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” goes on about how most people celebrate the 4th of July with freedom, but how can a black man participate if he doesn't have those rights. “To him, your celebration is a sham.” (Document G) Then, you have a southern, George Fitzhugh, stating that slaves are “the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world” (Document H). You get to see the South’s perspective about slavery thinking that slaves have a better life because they provided them with work and a home. These...
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...Kalynne Muchicko English 8/Civics 8 Miss Magusiak/Mr. Shamblin 5/11/2017 How Gettysburg affected the Civil War The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the civil war to the Union's favor , impacting the victory by civilian death allowing the seriousness to occur, stopping them from invading, and stopping General Lee’s attempt of taking over the north. The battle of Gettysburg took place on July 1-July 3, 1863. The civilian death allowed them to realize the seriousness of the war. The war stopped the victory and put the confederacy of the defensive and ended Gen. Robert E. Lee’s attempt. Therefore , affecting the victory of the war. Historian Hillary Clay said, “Jennie...
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...of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Rosetta Parter Rutgers University Duwayne Battle Diversity and Oppression Introduction September 21, 2014 SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME 2 Introduction Abraham Lincoln concluded his first Inaugural Address in 1861 by expressing confidence that the "better angels" of the American psyche would one day prevail over racism. As students, we were taught that slavery ended with President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. However, after watching the documentary by Douglas Blackmon’s, “Slavery by Another Name” I have no idea how ignorant I am about that section of America's history. I am now convinced that slavery went on for many years after the Civil War. The documentary showed neoslavery was practiced after the Emancipation Proclamation and until the beginning of World War II. Neoslavery was the practice of abducting African Americans, and imprisoning them based on embellished or false criminal charges, and forcing them into servitude long after the days of the Civil War. This practice was upheld mostly throughout Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Most knowledgeable people realize that the Emancipation Proclamation was more symbolic practical in ending slavery, since it only applied to states which were in rebellion, and would have meant absolutely nothing had the North not won the war. The 13th Amendment was thought...
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...He “nominated William Windom of Minnesota as Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Hunt of Louisiana as Secretary of the Navy, Robert Todd Lincoln as Secretary of War, and Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa as Secretary of the Interior. At his inaugural address, he discussed the need for education, denunciation of Mormon polygamy, and the need of civil rights for African-Americans(James A. Garfield). The speech was not very good ,though, because he was distracted with creating his cabinet. Garfield was only a president for 100 days because he was assassinated, but he did do some things. One such thing was the Star Route Scandal, which was an investigation into mail route contracts that “were being awarded fraudulently with tax money lining the pockets of those involved”(James Garfield - Twentieth President of the United States). What made this so important was that once Garfield realized that members of the Republican Party were involved in the scandal, he pushed the investigation forward, and in the end resulted in civil service...
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