... president. He was the first Republican to become President of the United States, defeating threee other candidates. Lincoln's first official act was the appointment of John G. Nicolay as private secretary. One month after he had taken office he heard that the 6th Massachusetts Infantry was on its way to defend Washington, ... finally over. What he did not know is that his assassination was being planned on this day. John Wilkes Booth's hatred of Lincoln and the North was out of control. He had to do something. John believed the country was for whites only. He wanted to kidnap the presid...

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... philosophy and method. While many white abolitionists focused only on slavery, black Americans tended to couple anti-slavery activities with demands for racial equality and justice. Some famous abolitionists are John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia to create a national organization to bring about ... the territories. Sectional conflict was intensified by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which declared that Congress could not exclude slavery from the western territories...

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... and Cumberland Rivers as well as some vital southern railroads. While the two armies fought for land, the North was in control of the sea. Their main purpose was to block the South from trading so their wages will be lowered severely. The South tried to lose the North's ships with their blockade-runners. These blockade-runners can outrun the great ... ran out, the Confederates were eating horses, rats, and dogs. With the pressure of sickness and hunger, the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. After McClellan's defeat, Lincoln ordered General John Pope to advance directly...

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... the American Civil War. The southern slaves were plentiful. If a slave were to fall ill or become combative, the plantation owner would simply purchase a replacement slave from the local auction block. In fact, there were so many slaves in the southern United States that their population totaled approximately four (4) million during the 1860's, nearly one third (1/3) of the entire southern population ... least ten percent (10%). This ten percent (10%) plan excluded blacks as they had not been given any right to vote. After Lincoln assassination on April 15, 1865 by actor John Wilkes Boo...

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... other states. About 700,000 slaves were starting to expand all over the states. When they arrived at their master's land, he gave his slaves their own names such as John Downey, James Wilson. The slave owner has these dirty, rotten shacks for his slaves to live for the rest of their lives. They have the men working in the plantation ... trying to let their children have the same education as the white children; it wasn't possible because of George Wallace, governor of Alabama from (1963-1966). A segregationist who tried to block integration of the schools and the city as well in his sta...

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