... memorial would symbolize the founding and freedom of our nation. He then suggested four presidents who he felt represented our nation's freedom (History.com). Borglum chose the first president, George Washington, to be on the mountain because he fought for our independence from England. Thomas Jefferson was chosen after him because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and he was also ... who led colonists in the Revolutionary War (History.com). He helped win independence from Great Britain. He was such a caring individual who was unanimously elected to be our first president. Washin...

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... his first battle, but was very successful in New Jersey. In 1871 he forced the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The war was won. Washington was elected president in 1789 and served two terms. He managed the problems of a nation the debt of war. He refused a third ... in the legislature. He was governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1790 he accepted the post secondary of state under George Washington. In 1796 he became vice president to John Adams. For years later he became president. This was the first peaceful presidential transfer from ... He was reelected in 1864, and by spri...

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... as president during a time of great change and hardship in American History from the founding of the nation to World War II. Some view George Washington as one of the greatest men to have ever lived. He was the father of the United States and helped the country in its struggle ... became a member of the House of Burgesses and led the Virginian opposition to British policy in the colonies. As the Revolutionary War broke out, Washington became the Commander in Chief of the Continental Congress. With poorly trained men and few supplies, he was finally able to defeat the British in the ... ...

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... numerous others. Late in1864, a plan was devised to kidnap Lincoln during the summer while he was traveling on horseback from the cottage on the grounds of the U.S. Soldier's home to Washington City. Their Selinger 2 plan was to halt the carriage containing Lincoln. Along with others, Booth planned to use chloroform or to gag and bind the President. Lincoln would then be ... transported out of the city into secessionist countryside that was southeast of Washington (Stackpole 10). Lincoln discarded this idea because of the weather. Booth abandoned the arrangement because Lincoln no longe...

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... had taught his son, Robert, how to shoot a rifle. He would often tell his son about the exciting events that happened when he was fighting side by side with George Washington. Although they had fun these times, his father took a turn for the worst. In 1818, young Lee's father died of old war injuries. He was left with his mother and ... a couple of wars the Confederacy had changed their strategy. From the start they were only to fight a defensive war but now with their newly found confidence they decided to attack Washington D.C. General Lee lead the attack. Lee's forces were cornered a...

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Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of ... " careful ear heard his master say, sometime during 1835, that he was about seventeen years old. Sometime during 1818, Harriet Bailey gave birth to Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Tuckahoe, Maryland, near Easton. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsy Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. Frederick's father, however, was white ... He opened closed minds, and was one of t...

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... that slavery had an evil effect on masters as well as slaves. A long time before the war, he had freed the few slaves whom he had inherited. Lee admired George Washington, and hated the thought of a divided nation. But eventually he felt that his state was protecting the very liberty, freedom, and legal principles for which ... Washington had fought. Lee was willing to leave the Union, just like Washington who had left the British Empire, in order to fight what the South called a second war of independence. Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), commanded the Union ... any other slave revolt i...

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... wasn't very liked by all other government officials, but he was loved by the people. His second inauguration was a big event and it has the city of Washington, D.C. overloaded. One of the people in attendance for the inauguration was Lincoln's future assassin, Booth. At this time Lincoln was in poor health and about 35 ... much like any other day, despite the fact that Lincoln had awaken late at the hour of 7 a.m. He awoke to the small, but busy city of Washington, D.C. The city wasn't very clean and prices of goods were in wartime strategy. The White House was big and shabby, and it was ...

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CHILDHOOD YEARS DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 7, 1817 PLACE OF BIRTH: TUCKAHOE, MD FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND"S EASTERN SHORE. FREDERICK MOTHER HARRIET BAIELY WORKED ON ... HIS BROTHER PERRY, HIS SISTER"S SARAH AND ELIZABETH. DURING THE COURSE IF HIS REMARKABLE LIFE HE MANGED TO ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY HE CHANGED HIS NAME FROMA FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO ALURE SLAVE HUNTERS. EDUCATION SOPHIA AULD TAUGHT DOUGLASS HIS LETTERS IN 1827. LATER HE TAUGHT HIS SELF TO WRIT AND DO ARITHMETIC ... "LESSONS OF THE HO...

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... Run. The northern army retreated in disaray, but the southerns were equally confused, and the strong personalities of Davis, Johnston, and Beaurugard clashed. In Washington D.C. the union army, now called the Army of the Potomac, came under George B. McClellan, an expert organizer who drilled and organized army for ... Pope was disorganized and not recieving proper help from both McClellan and McDowell. Lee brought Longstreet to the attack and forced Pope to flee into Washington D.C. in a repeat of Bull Run. Pope and McDowell were sent to preform megear jobs out west while Lincoln unwill...

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... 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, which had been attacked by a Baltimore mob that left 13 dead. In May of 1861 Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas joined the Confederacy. ... The first important battle of the war takes place near Manassas near a sluggish creek called Bull Run, 20 miles southwest of Washington. The battle killed 847 people and more than 2500 were wounded. Lincoln felt for the slaves and tried to help them out by signing a ... him die at 7:22 the n...

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... The Republicans again rejected the idea, although a majority of both Northerners and Southerners would have voted in favor of it. A pre-war February Peace Conference of 1861 met in Washington, proposing a solution similar to that of the Crittenden compromise, it was rejected by Congress. The Republicans proposed an alternative compromise to not interfere with slavery where it existed but the ... the command of Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell on the Confederate forces there was halted in the First Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas. McDowell's troops were forced back to Washington, D.C., by t...

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... of the Constitution that had to be prevented by any means necessary. Lincoln was well aware that he would be tested, as no president had ever been before; not even Washington. His forbearance under such weight has made him one of the nation's most beloved heroes. But during his presidency he was anything but this. Southerners saw him as a despotic tyrant ... of U.S House of Representatives. He was a Whig at first but he was a republican starting in 1856. He was 52 when he was inaugurated. He died on April 15, 1865 in Washington D.C. and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill...

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Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield When the Civil War broke out Clara Barton was one of the first volunteers to appear at the Washington Infirmary to care for wounded soldiers. After the Battle of Bull Run, she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. In July 1862, Clara Barton lobbied ... Bordentown New Jersey in 1853. This school was one of the first free public schools in the state. From 1854 to 1857 she was employed by the Patent Office in Washington D.C., the first woman to ever work at the Patent Office. Once the Civil War began, Clara Bar...

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... of Hanover. In Plymouth County, he was a town selectman, member of the Revolutionary Committee on Public Safety, and a state representative. Sumner's grandfather was Major Job Sumner. He fought under General Washington after he quit his classes at Harvard. After the revolution, Major Job Sumner served as the U.S. commissioner to settle the accounts between the Confederation and Georgia. He failed to marry ... was performed by the Episcopal bishop of Boston in the home of William Appleton's former house with only a handful of the nearest relatives . In the winter of 1866 - 1867, Washingto...

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... Frederick Johnson "Without struggle there is no progress" Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave in Talbot County, Maryland somewhere around the time of 1817(?) and died in 1895 as a freed man named Frederick Douglass. In my essay I am going to just overview ... York, recruited Negro troops for the Union armies in 1863, and went on to have several run-ins with such Presidents as Johnson, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison. February 25, in Washington D.C., after speaking at a women's rights meeting, Frederick Douglass was called home to a hire state from a heart attack in 1895. "W...

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On April 14, 1865 our sixteenth president was assassinated. President Abraham Lincoln was attending a comedy entitled "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. when "A shadowy figure stepped into the box, stretched out his arm, aimed a small derringer pistol at the back of Lincoln's head, and pulled the trigger" (Freedman 123). Clara Harris, Henry ... into the hands of the assassin. The President was supposed to be viewing a play at a distant hospital on March 17, 1865, but at the last minute decided to stay in Washington ("Overview of Assassination"[online]). Booth had orig...

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... brigade is a misnomer" (www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.html) and was not actually a single brigade but was made up of several American battalions, for example the George Washington Battalion. These American battalions fought along side British, Irish, Canadian, Russian, German, Polish and volunteers from other countries and were organized under the Fifteenth International brigade. The International brigade in ... town of Brunete. This battle, too was one of the most important in which the Lincoln Brigade had fought in. In this battle they fought along side of the George ...

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... some point during the movie that it has been done by the same director, but not with this one. Not everyone shared in the most excellent ness of this movie. Washington Post review, Hal Hinson: "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" is a dilapidated comedy about two of history's preeminent nonentities. To say that Bill and Ted (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are underachievers ... any talent for comedy, it's not visible here. More than anything, the picture looks paltry and undernourished. Even the warts on Lincoln's face look slapped on. (Washington Post, 1989) I think that the gentleman fro...

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... , which he badly needed. General Lee also wanted to capture Harper's Ferry to use as a base of operation to attack McClellan's supply line if he could be drawn away from Washington and in to the Cumberland Valley. Even though General McClellan, affectionately known as "Little Napoleon" to his troops, had everything handed to him to finish off the rebel army with ... "Fighting Joe" Hooker had requested reinforcements to wipe out the rebels on the north side of the battlefield, General McClellan refused to send them until he received more replacements from Washington. Instead of sending in...

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... president in or if they do not agree with the ways that the president is planning on serving he most likely will not get the majority of the votes. George Washington was a very good choice for a first president. He was because he was a war hero, and he knew how the people wanted to be treated. George ... Washington also set an example for future presidents because if they had similar ideas as Washington did they would have a better chance of becoming president. Another reason I like having a president if war is inevitable he has the diplomatic knowledge ... ...

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... "Five Bleeding Wounds." In the compromise, the California admission issue was resolved and it was admitted as a free state, also, there would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico ended in favor of New Mexico. However, there is one issue that kind of generated the Civil War even though it ... and it was time to be more offensive to the North. His strategy was to destroy as many military posts as possible in Maryland and Pennsylvania while the Union defend Washington D.C. However, after the battle shifted to the Cemetery Ridge, whi...

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... the one who encouraged Lincoln to continue learning on his own (Johnson). Lincoln began to read books on his own and the biography of George Washington made a lasting impression on his life. Lincoln took the ideals of Washington a made them his own (Johnson). Because Lincoln took the initiative to learn on his own, he became a very smart man. Lincoln's political career started ... ...

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... in 1834 he began to study law and was admitted to the bar two years later. As a rising young lawyer, Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, and moved to Washington to serve out his term, where he spoke out against the Mexican War and unsuccessfully attempted to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1849 after his term ended ... , to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. (Miller, 549). Less than one week after the Confederate surrender, while attending a Washington theater, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Bo...

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... recognized by Mexico. Nor did the United States enforce it (The History Place). Abe was not a candidate for re-election. This was decided upon and declared before the trip to Washington was made. In 1848, during his term for congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the Presidency. In opposition to all others, he played an active part in this role ... for election. After his nomination, he spoke a few times in Maryland, near Washington, several times in Massachusetts, and quite frequently in his own district in Illinois (The History Place). When Abraham Lincoln returned fro...

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