... of over 600,000 lives. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars America has fought in combined. It came very close to destroying the American government and culture for good, yet it also saved the country. Midway through the war, January 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves within the Confederacy and changed ... with maintaining political power. They question whether Lincoln was justified in stopping the South from leaving the Union and whether it was hypocritical for a government to uphold democracy and yet stop people from selec...

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... in Havana, Cuba. Jose Ruiz purchased 49 slaves, and his friend, Pedro Montes acquired 4 Africans. Ruiz hired a man named Ramon Ferrer to take them in his schooner, the Amistad, to a Cuban coastal town, Puerto Principe. Aboard the ship were five white men, a black cabin boy, fifty-three slaves and a cook. According to a story told by the Africans, the cook had told ... to use violence. He ordered that President Van Buren send these people back to their homeland and to their families. Van Buren was not happy about this. The United States government decided to appeal this decision before t...

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... than three years before self-proclaimed Marxist and Fidel Castro supporter Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated him. A possible and plausible motive behind Oswald's actions was Kennedy's views and actions against the Cuban government, which Oswald promoted. Despite Oswald's personal opinion of John F. Kennedy, it is possible that "Oswald cast aside any admiration for JFK as a person, seeing assassination as an opportunity to advance ... ...

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