On April 14‚ 1865‚ 16th president Abraham Lincoln was shot while he was watching a performance at Ford’s theater in Washington DC; the next day‚ April 15‚ 1865‚ he died in Petersen House. Though this happened over 100 years ago‚ people still believe that there was just from the assassination. Even through his election was a thing that led into the civil war‚ he was an important figure in history‚ which still affects us today. I believe that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was unjust because
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The war aftermath in South: the former Confederacy presented a sharp contrast to the victorious north. Throughout the south‚ people where emotionally exhausted: many lives had been sharttered.in 1866‚ the state of Mississippi spent a fifth of its annual budget on artificial limbs for confederate soldiers. Property value had collapsed. In the year after the war ended‚ eighty-one plantations in Mississippi where sold for less than a tenth of what they had been worth in 1860. Confederate money was
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Lincoln is considered a “rebel” because he took a stand in what he believed in when no one else would. Abraham was born in February 12‚ 1809 close to Hodgenville‚ Kentucky‚ U.S. and died on April 15‚ 1865 in Washington‚ D.C. He was the 16th president of the United States of America from 1861-1865. Within those four years he had accomplished many things. The biggest one was freeing the slaves. He thought that no matter the religion or color of a person they shouldn’t be treated as dirt‚ they should
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Delaware and the Civil War Amendments About The Amendments At the end of and following the Civil War‚ three amendments to the constitution were proposed and ratified: the 13th (1865)‚ 14th (1868)‚ and 15th (1870). These amendments are commonly known as the Reconstruction amendments and are also called Civil War amendments‚ Civil Rights amendments‚ or Equality amendments. Thirteenth Amendment Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude‚ except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
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Presidential Outline Assignment #3 eE I. Abraham Lincoln‚ #16‚ II. Born on February 12‚ 1809‚ in Hardin County‚ Kentucky III. In order to support his family‚ Lincoln had to be constantly working and this took a toll on his education. He had few periods enrolled in local schooling. He worked as a shopkeeper and a postmaster and eventually became involved in local politics as a supporter of the Whig Party‚ winning election to the Illinois state legislature in 1834. Lincoln taught himself law
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African American History 1865 to Present Finally being free from slavery of the hard ships of not being claimed as human beings but as property that endured in harsh whippings as punishment and being sold from their families enduring harsh whippings‚ no pay‚ no rights‚ and could not own guns or really anything of that manner. With the help of Abraham Lincoln the Emancipation of Proclamation the African Americans finally had a chance to become something more than just property; even though it did
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Chapter 16 Outline part 1 The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and
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History DBQ In the period of 1865 to 1900‚ American agriculture was greatly affected by technology‚ government policy‚ and the economic conditions of the country. At first‚ the advances and decisions made in these three categories pleased farmers‚ and they had a positive outlook for the future. Their opinions changed drastically over a prolonged period of time. From 1865 to 1900 the United States’ railways increased their mileage dramatically (Document B). In 1865 the Railroad stretched about
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Civil War in America took place in 1861-1865 between northern and southern states. Many different reasons brought to this event but some more than other. As we all know slavery was the biggest issue of that time and reason for Civil War to start‚ but behind this issue there are huge economical differences. People in the north did want to change human rights in the whole country because they were against slavery but their economy did not depend on slaves. Southerners did not agree on this mostly because
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thirteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. This amendment made it illegal to buy‚ sell or possess slaves in the United States of America or anywhere under the rule of said government. It was ratified on December 6th of 1865. Long before this momentous occasion‚ large amounts of other events needed to occur. Firstly‚ there needed to be a reason for this amendment to be made. That reason‚ of course‚ was that slavery was horrific. Some examples of such atrocities done
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