While it may be true that Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass lived very different lifestyles‚ Lincoln having all the benefits of being a white male in the 1800’s and Douglas born into slavery with no civil rights‚ they had very similar views. Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass came from similar backgrounds‚ they put great value into education‚ and they became well-known for their impact on slavery. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County‚ Kentucky in 1809‚ and moved to Spencer County‚ Indiana
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Notes Overview of principal Reconstruction proposals and plans: · 1864-65: Lincoln’s 10% plan · 1865: 13th Amendment · 1865-66: Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson’s version of Lincoln’s proposal · 1866-67: Congressional plan: 10% plan with 14th Amendment · 1867-77: Military Reconstruction (Congress): 14th Amendment plus black suffrage that was later established nationwide by the 15th Amendment. · Compromise of 1877: ends Reconstruction. What was Reconstruction? Attempt to achieve
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Pasteur discovers the bacterial origin of fermentation. * 1863 – Gregor Mendel discovers the laws of inheritance. * 1864 – Antonin Prandtl invest first centrifuge to separate cream from milk. * 1869 – Friedrich Miescher identifies DNA in the sperm of a trout * 1871 – Ernst Hoppe-Seyler discovers invertase‚ which is still used for making artificial sweeteners. * 1877 – Robert Koch develops a technique for staining bacteria for identification. * 1878 – Walther Flemming discovered chromatin leading
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• Question 1 In May 1856‚ ________ slaughtered five unarmed‚ proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in "bleeding Kansas." Answer Correct Answer: John Brown • Question 2 1 out of 1 points During the Lincoln-Douglas debates‚ Douglas argued that territories could circumvent the Dred Scott decision by not enacting the laws necessary for slavery. This was called the Answer Correct Answer: Freeport Doctrine. • Question 3 1 out of 1 points The Ostend
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became the administrative center of the united principalities of Walachia and Moldavia‚ under Ottoman suzerainty. By the decisions of the Congress of Berlin‚ which provided for a general settlement of the Balkan situation after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and 1878‚ Romania was recognized as an independent country with Bucharest as its capital. German troops occupied Bucharest from December 1916 until mid-1918 during World War I. During World War II Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu admitted German troops
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Nathan Bedford Forrest is memorialized as one of the greatest cavalrymen of the American Civil War‚ and arguably one of the most controversial. He was born in Tennessee in 1812 to a broken family. Forrest worked as a cotton planter and slave trader‚ in which he largely profited. In the early years of the war he pledged his allegiance to the Confederate States‚ and enlisted as a Private in the army. Soon Forrest rose to Lieutenant General‚ despite having no prior military training. Forrest served
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military districts called the Military Reconstruction Act. It helped to rebuild and organized the south. In 1869‚ Congress passed the 15 amendment‚ allowing men of all race who are citizens the right to vote. To every beginning‚ there is an end. In 1877‚ the reconstruction ended due to The United States economic failure. The U.S. economic was at its lowest and the government had bigger problems to deal than the reconstruction. Federal troops were pulled out of the southern states and ended the Reconstruction
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discusses the Sand Creek Massacre. During the late 1800s‚ people were coming to Colorado for gold and silver. Even though the Native Americans wanted peace and no trouble‚ the western settlers wanted their land to get more gold and silver. On November 27‚ 1864 Colorado Militia attacked. The website “Sand Creek Massacre | Historynet”‚ it states that many of the men had gone out hunting. This means that out of the two hundred Cheyenne killed‚ the majority was women and children. This impacts the land and
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occurring. Members of the KKK are white supremacists‚ which means they believe whites are superior to all other races. The group was formed in 1865 in Pulaski‚ Tennessee. “The first leader was Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)‚ a former general in the Confederate Army‚ who‚ on April 12‚ 1864‚ in the final days of the American Civil War (1861-1865)‚ led a massacre of three hundred African American soldiers in service of the Union Army at Fort Pillow‚ Tennessee” (“Ku Klux Klan”). The KKK are infamously known
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Success‚ Long Term Failure by Thesis Both the presidency and Congress passed several reforms to attempt to solve all of these problems‚ however the progress that was made during Reconstruction was for the most part shot down by the Compromise of 1877. Outline of the Contents I. IntroThesis II. Condition of the South Immediately Following the Civil War III. The Presidential Reconstruction Plan IV. The Congressional Reconstruction Plan V. Economic Reform VI. Social Strife VII. Conclusion
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