... introduce himself to Anna, President John Quincy Adams" youngest daughter. Charles Sumner did have a small circle of friends. They called themselves "The Five of Clubs". The members were Hillard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry R. Cleveland, Cornelius C. Felton, and Charles Sumner . His friends began to worry about his health because Charles became careless as to whether he should live or die. On top of ... that, his sister Mary had tuberculosis and his brother Henry was coughing up blood which indicated danger. At the end of July in 1844, his mood of depressed loneliness lifted when ...

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... money. Another way was for slave children to be freed after a certain age. Abraham Lincoln cannot take credit for all of his ideas. Most of them were the ideas of Henry Clay, a Kentucky slave owner. You could say that Clay was Lincoln's role model. Lincoln described him as, "My beau ideal of a statesman, the man whom I fought all my humble life ... . He was the great parent of Whig principles. During my whole life I have loved and revered Henry Clay as a teacher and leader." (14). All of Lincoln's and Clay"s priorities are about the same, especially those involving slavery, mercantilism ...

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... to get new recruits until he had nearly 20,000 men. In January l862 Grant got permission from his commanding officer General Halleck to attack Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. As Grant's army approached Ft Henry most of the Confederates withdrew. A Union gunboat fleet sent ahead captured the fort easily. On his own he then attacked Fort Donelson on the Cumberland ... ...

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... scared South Carolina, and when they asked other states for help they got no promises of military aid. Finally seeing that his state was in bad shape John C. Calhoun asked Henry Clay to help him come up with compromise. They came up with a law that would lower tariff annually over a 10 year period until they were satisfactory. After the Missouri Compromise ... had to stop the spread of slavery to end it altogether. Then came another attempt to resolve the conflicts between the North and the South. In January of 1850 Senator Henry Clay proposed a plan. His plan was divided into six parts...

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... of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hindu philosophy. Emerson is noted for his skill in presenting his ideas eloquently and in poetic language B. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - American writer, philosopher, and naturalist who believed in the importance of individualism. Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies ... in 1839, and participated in the founding of the Republican Party in 1854. For more than 30 years, Whittier devoted himself to the abolition of slavery in the United S...

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... writers, historians, and others for over 130 years. On the night of his assassination Lincoln was accompanied by his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris. Soon after the play had begun a figure drew out a pistol, stepped into the presidential box, aimed, and fired. The president wilted forward. The assassin ... hours later, at 7:22 AM on April 15th, Lincoln died. At almost the same moment Booth fired the fatal shot, his accomplice, Lewis Paine attacked Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Sewar...

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... , the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. James ... you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and ...

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... and easy. In February 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant led the Union to Tennessee, hoping to capture two of the forts he wants-Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. With the help of Union navy gunboats, Grant took Fort Henry on February 6th. 10 days later, Fort Donelson belonged to Grant. With these two forts and the Confederates surrendering Nashville to the North on ... ...

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... 's Creek and Lexington, Mo. but withdrew back to Arkansas to form an army with the intention of invading Missouri in 1862. Fremont was replaced with the the more cool headed Henry Halleck who now turned his attention to Kentucky. Davis and Lincoln, both from Kentucky, understood the state's importance: Kentucky was populas and the Ohio river could act as a great defensive ... and aggresive reconsance to bluff the north. By Febuary 1862 Johnston's bluff failed starting with the north's first land victory at Mill Springs, Ky. A Northern army under U.S. Grant siezed Fort Henry on the Tennes...

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... at Cairo, Illinois, and St. Louis built new boats or modified steamboats for action. They took control of the Red, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers after victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, and supplied Grant's forces as he moved into Tennessee. At Shiloh, in Tennessee in April 1862, the Confederates made a surprise attack that pushed Union forces against the ... ...

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... cause of the American Civil War was the Compromise of 1850. It was five laws passed to resolve issues about slavery in the crisis of 1850. The issues, mentioned by Henry Clay, were the "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 ... ...

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... as though many automatically respect Abraham Lincoln just for freeing the slaves and try to ignore the fact that he was a racist. In one case, a professor by the name of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. noticed that Lincoln was using the n-word in public. While African Americans obviously take offence to this word, the professor considers it to be an exception since ... ...

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... demonstrated against the institution of slavery in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (Document D). Although he was eventually condemned to death because of his actions, Brown was praised by a select few, such as Henry David Thoreau, who viewed his actions as heroic; these few saw him as courageous because of the will he had to stand up for his fellow man (Document K). Slavery was ... ...

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... meaning the belief that dismantling the institution of slavery wasn't possible without a legal basis. Lincoln was a member of the conservative Whig party which was partially influenced by his mentor Senator Henry Clay who devised the colonization idea. The Colonization Society supported the idea that Lincoln had, which was gradual emancipation, that slaveholders would be compensated for riding the problem of slavery ... ...

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... and reliable fatherly figure elsewhere. This search is tied directly to their political beliefs and leadership styles. For Jefferson Davis, this person was his older brother, Joseph and for Lincoln-Henry Clay and George Washington. Davis' older brother, Joseph, was a successful attorney, politician, and planter in Mississippi. Joseph had helped frame Mississippi's first constitution, possessed a wide network of friends and political ... ...

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... two terms as the President from March 4, 1869 to March, 4 1877. For his first term his vice president was Schuyler Colfax and for his second term the vice president was Henry Wilson. His first term Cabinet consisted of Hamilton Fish for Secretary of State, George Boutwell for Secretary of Treasury, William Belknap for Secretary of War, George Robeson for Secretary of ... ...

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... suspected accomplices have been detained for questioning. Our nation is shocked by this news Lincoln was seated in a private box above the stage with his wife Mary, an officer named Henry Rathbone and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris, the daughter of New York Senator Ira Harris. The president was in a fine mood on this Good Friday evening, after the surrender of ... ...

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... United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." There was much debate in Congress about what should be included in the Amendment. Henry Adams remarked that the 15th Amendment was "more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain." It did not guarantee blacks the right to hold office ... ...

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... naturally found in Forts, so that is where the Unions objectives lie. With military leadership from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union army scored important victories in Tennessee by capturing Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February of 1862. This victory by the Union gives them more confidence and renders Lincoln support by the common folk in the north. People still had ... ...

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... was a presidential election year, and political parties had formed around the contending candidates. Followers of Andrew Jackson, who was seeking a second term as president, called themselves Democrats. Followers of U.S. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky called themselves National Republicans and later Whigs. Lincoln supported Clay, who had long been his political idol. After his defeat, Lincoln opened a general store in New Salem ... ...

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On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Henry Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a ... ...

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... with the Louisiana Purchase territory. So, just extend the line and be done with it. Because California was going to become a state upsetting the balance of free versus slave states, Henry Clay proposed the Compromised of 1850. However, this bill did not pass until Steven Douglas picked it up and proposed it as separate pieces of legislation. There are five main ... ...

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... the 21st Illinois. Under his command he turned his men into a real fighting unit instead of a bunch of "hellions" as they were know. Grant received recognition when he took Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and 15,000 prisoners. Grant became known as "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. Grant took Nashville and Vicksburg and then took leadership of the Army of the Northern Potomac ... ...

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... was calm under fire, poised, confident, and aggressive (Grant, Encarta). Ever eager to go on the offensive, Grant finally convinced his superior officer, Halleck, to permit him to attack Fort Henry, then Fort Donelson. The result was two impressive victories. The victory at Fort Donelson lifted Grant onto the national stage. An old friend of Grant's, general Buckner, commanded the confederate ... ...

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... 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 Rathbone, And Mary Todd (Lincoln's wife) all accompanied Lincoln in the state box that night; and they were all witnesses to this brutal crime ("Overview of Assassination"[Online]). The figure ... ...

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