They were instructed to take a flat boat from Beardstown, Illinois to New Orleans. ... While in spring field they discover that Offutt had failed to get a boat a Beardstown. The men had to work for $12.00 per month to cut timber and build a boat they. They took this boat down to New Orleans to fulfill the old contract (Askjeeves.com). ... In the mean time Abe open another store that failed, and became the postmaster of New Salem (American Presidents.com). ...

• Word Count: 2431
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

.* During this time of political chaos, a time where the southern states would try and cheat the northern out of a fair boat, one man decided to take it upon himself to end slavery. ... On April 12 1868, he had the confederate army open fire on Fort Sumter on Major Anderson and his troops making war official.* Northerners Believe war was necessary, and Abe Lincoln would do anything to maintain the union. ...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Also on all passenger boats... ... The Supreme Court had permitted the legal route for subordination of the Blacks to be opened; the new, now limited, amendments were no longer roadblocks, and the Southerners swarmed to their state governments to disenfranchise the Negroes and to ensure that a white, democratic control continued in the South. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate