Lincoln's Speech Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech had a specific purpose for it. He was directing it mainly at the congressmen and the President, and it's purpose was to show them how America was hurting itself by fighting endlessley over slavery. His speech was one of the most influential speeches in the history of the US. Lincoln was talking to the congressmen and the President because they were the people who could do something about all of these issues. He pointed
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Unit IV: Continuing Sectionalism, Civil War, And Reconstruction. 1853 To 1877 1. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 – A Bill introduced by Steven Douglas to organize the Nebraska territory. He hoped to build a transcontinental railroad making Chicago the terminus, but they could not do this until the Indians were cleared away and the land was in control. Nebraska would presumably become a free state due to the Missouri Compromise but to please the South Douglas argued that the territories should be
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The American Civil War was a testing period of opposing wills between the Union and the Confederacy. The main focal point for the war was on the issue of slavery. Headed by Abraham Lincoln, the Union desperately tried to emancipate the slaves while Jefferson Davis, head of the Confederates, tried to lead the Confederate rebellion against this emancipation. The two sides met numerous times in many battles that were spearheaded by brave soldiers. The soldiers of the American Civil War had many things
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Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 and lived to July 23, 1885. He was the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General in 1864 to 1869, Grant worked preat close to President Abraham Lincoln To lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War..Grant graduated in 1843 from the United States Military Academy, then served in the Mexican–American War for a bit. After the war he married Julia Boggs Dent in 1848, they also had four children
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way. While a vast majority of confederate soldiers fought for patriotic purposes, only a little more than half of the Union soldiers fought genuinely because they believed in this war. The Northern soldiers were almost as if in echo of Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, many Northern soldiers saw secession as a deadly challenge to the foundation of law and order on which all societies must rest if they are not to degenerate into anarchy. Last of all, the Union soldiers felt that their goal was to protect
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1861-1865. This war was fought between the Union and Confederacy, over the issue of slavery. The Union was against slavery and consisted of Northern States. The Confederacy was for slavery and consisted of Southern States. The Union’s president was Abraham Lincoln. The Confederacy's president was Jefferson Davis. The Civil War began when when troops from the South bombed Fort Sumter, South Carolina. It was a battle that lasted thirty four hours. Finally, the North surrendered. The Northern Troops had
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The American Civil War marked the darkest stage in the country’s history. The war pitted the Confederate South against the Union of the United States. It lasted from 1861-1865 and led to the death of over 600000 people and left untold destruction especially in the Southern States. The war erupted as a result of the sharp differences that existed between the South Confederate states and the Northern states. Efforts to reconcile the two sides failed and a full scale war ensued that changed the social-political
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On April 14, 1865 President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was shot in the back of the head in Ford’s theater. About ten days before the murder of President Lincoln he had a dream of retiring very late he had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. He could not have been long in bed when he fell into a slumber, for he was weary. He soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about him. Then he heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were
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There were three major turning points during the period of 1865 -1900. (Schultz, 2012) states that reconstruction is the federal government’s attempt to resolve the issues resulting from the end of the Civil War. Lincoln (Schultz 2012) says issued a ten-percent plan offered amnesty to any southerner who proclaimed loyalty to the Union and support the emancipation of slaves. Once 10 percent of voters signed the oath in the election 1860, it could create a new state
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President Lincoln wanted an aggressive leader to show such act. Although the Confederate Army attacks in Kentucky and Maryland were unsuccessful President Lincoln began switching out Generals. Starting with Major General Don Carlos with Major General William S. Rosecrans. He had hoped that General Rosecrans would be more aggressive
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