Unlike other Jedis‚ Thomas Nast wielded a pencil instead of a light saber that gave him some pretty awesome super powers. His top super power was his masterful drawings that could sway public opinion. Whether it was a social or political issue‚ Nast’s cartoons could change minds and influence the popular opinion. He did so without having to use the Force. Another awesome super power that Nast possessed was his staying power. Not another political cartoonist is as widely recognized over 100 years
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Have you ever wondered about Abraham Lincoln early life. I have‚ and I thought today I would tell you about that. This man was born in February 12‚ 1809. He lived in a log cabin in Hardin County‚ Kentucky. Abraham’s father‚ Thomas Lincoln‚ was a migratory carpenter and farmer. Thomas was almost always very very poor. His mother Nancy Hanks died in 1818. A few years after Nancy’s death Thomas Lincoln married a widow‚ named Sarah Bush Johansen. She was a very caring‚ loving and affectionate mother
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Part 1 – Complete the following chart using information from the lesson. One example appears for you. Somebody ... Wanted ... But ... So ... President Abraham Lincoln the nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson‚ who became president after Lincoln’s death President Andrew Johnson Wanted to
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Confederate General who led southern forces against the Union Army in the American Civil War‚ Robert Edward Lee was born January 19‚ 1807‚ in Stratford Hall‚ Virginia. Lee was cut from Virginia aristocracy. His extended family members included a president‚ a chief justice of the United States‚ and signers of the Declaration of Independence. His father‚ Colonel Henry Lee‚ also known as "Light-Horse Harry‚" had served as a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War and gone on to become one of the
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What evidence was presented in class to support the interpretation that Lincoln was more the “reluctant” and not the “great emancipator” as claimed in history? Support answer with 3 scholarly interpretations. Although many people even today still consider President Lincoln the great emancipator‚ many scholars feel as if Radical Republicans were the main reason for the decisions Lincoln made about slavery during his presidency. In fact‚ two of the most important acts of Lincoln’s presidency were
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1. The facts are that this is a non- profit organization that needs to find some grants for some foundations to hire an administrative assistant to help with volunteer director to reduce the work load. Three foundations had accepted the proposal which gave them more money than what was expected. Two of the foundations asked that the money be handled in the way proposed to make sure that the money that will be spent is only spent for the reason intended. They were concerned that the money would not
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On April 14‚ 1865‚ just five days after Lee surrendered to Grant on the steps of the Appomattox Court House‚ a Confederate sympathizer by the name of John Wilkes Booth would change the course of U.S history for eternity. John Wilkes Booth fired one bullet and killed the sitting president‚ Abraham Lincoln; a much believed man and who would be dubbed the nickname "The Great Emancipator".1 Americans who heard that president Lincoln was shot and killed were in dismay about the loss of their leader and
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Abraham Lincoln‚ the sixteenth president of the United States‚ is in a tough position. America has been engulfed in war for four years and he has been re-elected president. In his second inaugural address‚ Lincoln expresses a desire to finally end the civil war in order to reunite the country. To accomplish this‚ he uses several unique stylistic elements in his address such as effective use of repetition‚ a religious tone‚ and comprehensible figurative language. Lincoln uses repetition in his inaugural
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Joshua Chamberlain was born September 8th‚ 1828 in Brewer Maine and was the oldest of four siblings. Chamberlain graduated from Bowdoin College in 1852 and eventually became a professor of modern languages with a total of 10 languages he was fluent in. On December 7‚ 1855‚ Chamberlain married Frances Adams‚ to whom he had been engaged for several years. Joshua and Frances had five children‚ but only two survived. Chamberlain became distressed about the secession of southern states and the outbreak
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Phillip Henry Sheridan’s youth and early childhood‚ followed by his rise to Calvary Commander‚ leading to the Shenandoah Valley Campaign‚ brought along by the Battle of Five Forks‚ transcending into his post-civil war life and death. Philip Henry Sheridan was born to Irish immigrants in March of 1831. Some historians contemplate that he was born in New York‚ where his family lived concisely before settling in Ohio. Sheridan worked as an accountant in a goods store during his teen years‚
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