Education -- About one year total Degrees -- Honorary degrees from Knox College (1860)‚ Columbia (1861)‚ Princeton (1864)‚ Illinois College (2009) Political Party -- Whig (1832-1856)‚ Republican (1856-1865) Offices Held -- Elected to Illinois General Assembly in 1834‚ 1836‚ 1838‚ 1840; elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 1846; elected sixteenth President of the U.S. in 1860 and 1864 Vice Presidents -- Hannibal Hamlin‚ Andrew Johnson Presidential Library -- Springfield‚ Illinois Non-Political
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Terms to Know 13th Amendment: Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War (1865-70) 14th Amendment: (1) All persons born in the U.S. are citizens; (2) no person can be deprived of life‚ liberty or property without due process of law; (3) no state can deprive a person of equal protection of the laws. Second of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War. 15th Amendment: States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. Third
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and he would use any device to keep the country together. However‚ his views on slavery evolved during his presidency‚ and the personal opposition towards slavery that he claimed he always had began to show through in his policy. As Lincoln noted in 1864‚ "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong‚ nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think‚ and feel" (Lorence 306). Despite such strongly worded beliefs‚ Lincoln policies towards slavery often shifted for the sake of political
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AP Questions‚ 1980-2007 1 List of AP and AP-related questions from the past twenty-seven years. [Compiled by Steve Armstrong] (Updated‚ May 14‚ 2007) Questions labeled “AP” are Copyright © 1980-2005 College Entrance Examination Board and Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. 1607-1763 AP 2007 Alternate The Colonial Period The French and Indian War (1754-1763) altered the relationship between Britain and its North American colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following
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Problems In American History Volume I: To 1877 (Wadsworth Cengage Learning‚ 2012) 38 – 39 Frethorne‚ Richard. ‘Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne Laments His Condition in Virginia‚ 1623’ Major Problems In American History Volume I: To 1877 (Wadsworth Cengage Learning‚ 2012) 36 – 37 Waterhouse‚ Edward. ‘Edward Waterhouse‚ a British Official‚ Recounts an Indian Attack on Early Virginia Settlement‚ 1622’ Major Problems In American History Volume I: To 1877 (Wadsworth Cengage Learning‚ 2012) 36
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society. Although in the beginning the government provided support for these new citizens‚ efforts toward reconstruction faded as the years passed. Those efforts faded to a point where they were all but nonexistent‚ and with the unwritten Compromise of 1877‚ what feeble efforts that were left of reconstruction were now all but dead. Politically‚ reconstruction failed to provide equality by pulling Federal troops from the South‚ allowing former Confederate officials and slave owners to return to power
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‚ is fictional story that deals with a very real and shocking reality associated with turn of the century American immigrants. It is a story of a Lithuanian man‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ who comes to America in search of the “dream” with his new fiancee and her family. In their search‚ they actually find something totally different from the American dream. What they discover is a world of corruption‚ injustice‚ and poverty. The lives of immigrants
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nation as a whole from 1856 until 1877 and the second one mostly dealt with transitions in the former confederacy from 1863 until 1877 . In the south they mostly worked on their social life and social behaviors as well as their government and how they worked . During this time there were three different Amendments added to the Constitution that affected the entire nation . Reconstruction began and ended at different times in different states but the Compromise of 1877 put an end to it all . But during
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(abolition) 1863 – March – Battle of Thompson’s Station (military/national) 1863 – May – Battle of Chancellorsville (military/national) 1863 – August – 1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment (102nd U.S. Colored Troops) raised (military/national) 1864 – May-December –
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The term Bourbon refers to the white rulers throughout the South at the end of the Reconstruction period. The Bourbons were democrats who ruled Louisiana until well into the 20th century. After 1877 cotton and sugar planters along with wealthy New Orleans businessmen reigned over the state; many of them were sons or grandsons of those that ruled before the Civil War. The Bourbon Democrats of Louisiana quickly realized that they would not be able to completely return to the plantation South of 1860
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