... -state settlement. The violence in Kansas reached the Senate, where Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave a speech on "The Crime against Kansas". For several days at Congress Sumner insulted senator A.P. Butler of South Carolina, who was charged by Sumner of "chosen a mistress who though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight - I mean the harlot, Slavery". Sumner ... said that Butler betrayed "an incapacity of accuracy", a "constant deviation of truth." Butler's nephew Preston S. Brooks was very angry at Sumner, and on May 22 he found Sumner in his Senate chair...

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... great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. Brett Butler, He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams Those who dream by ... -day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare What if nothing exists and we're all in ...

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... 's speech, "The Crime Against Kansas." In this speech, Sumner condemned both slavery supporters and the state of South Carolina. He went as far to personally affront South Carolina's senator, Andrew Butler. Resentful of such attacks, Congressman Preston Brooks sought vengeance by beating Sumner nearly to death with his cane. The northerners aroused against Brooks defiantly reelected Sumner and left his seat ... ...

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... 's speech, "The Crime Against Kansas." In this speech, Sumner condemned both slavery supporters and the state of South Carolina. He went as far to personally affront South Carolina's senator, Andrew Butler. Resentful of such attacks, Congressman Preston Brooks sought vengeance by beating Sumner nearly to death with his cane. The northerners aroused against Brooks defiantly reelected Sumner and left his seat ... ...

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... the policies of the Radical Republicans and introduced the bill that eventually became the Civil Rights Act of 1875. He lead abolitionist who spoke against slavery and openly insulted Benjamin F. Butler in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska crisis. Thaddeus Stevens was a powerful radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania. He tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868. A reliable friend of blacks ... ...

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... 's speech, "The Crime Against Kansas." In this speech, Sumner condemned both slavery supporters and the state of South Carolina. He went as far to personally affront South Carolina's senator, Andrew Butler. Resentful of such attacks, Congressman Preston Brooks sought vengeance by beating Sumner nearly to death with his cane. The northerners aroused against Brooks defiantly reelected Sumner and left his seat ... ...

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... to Douglass and wanted to know is he would subscribe to a newspaper called the Liberator, which was edited by a popular leader against slavery, William Lloyd Garrison. Frederick subscribed and immediately became interested. After meeting and talking with Garrison, Garrison hired Douglass to speak for the Anti-slavery Society. ... It was hard to tell which loved who most, Mr. Garrison the colored people or the colored people and Mr. Garrison- (Quaries 18). William got married at the age of twenty-five to a woman named Helen who was one of his abolitionists friend's sister. He immediately b...

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... most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy. II. CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General ... use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there S...

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... most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy. II. CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General ... use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there S...

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... on April 9, 1865 the last battle was fought and it was the end of a tragedy in American history. In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General ... use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted "war is hell" (Sherman, William T.,Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Finally, on December 20, Sherman's men reached the city of Savannah and from there Sherman ...

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... due to the fact that the society had never come across a man that was willing to kill innocent people to get what he wanted. William Lloyd Garrison was another abolitionist, however he did not go to the extremes that John Brown did. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on December 12th ... Civil War, Garrison pushed for rapid and complete emancipation of the slaves; and after the war he continued to insist on black equality. During William Garrison's time, society had started to turn around and accept the fact that slavery was inhuman. Garrison had many followers, and most were from ... w...

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... A. The fireside poets 1. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and largely self-educated. The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who asked him to contribute articles. Thus Whittier began a long career as contributing editor, essayist, and poet. A deeply ... Cross of Snow" (1879). In 1884 a bust of Longfellow was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first American to be thus honore...

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... - had Frederick beaten daily for the slightest violation of his strict rules. After spending approximately six months working for Edward Covey, he was then sent to work for a farmer named William Freeland, who was a relatively kind master. But, by this time Frederick had not cared about how nice his master was. The only thing Fredrick cared about, was gaining his freedom ... . He started an illegal school for blacks, in which he and five others would meet after hours to plan escape routes. A year had passed since Frederick began working for William Freeland and his plan of escape had been...

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... in 1842. Abraham and Mary had a son named Robert in 1843. Two years later Eddie was born but in 1849 passed away with tuberculosis. In December Mary gave birth to William and in 1853 she have birth to her last son Thomas. Abraham Lincoln became one of the leading members of the Republican Party. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an important ... each day meeting with any citizen lined up at the white house. He also met with military advisers. His cabinet and wrote all his speeches. Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, William died in 1862. For weeks after his son passed away, Abraham Lincoln spent ...

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... . However, this event was only one small part of a much larger conspiracy. At the same time that Booth was shooting Lincoln, other conspirators were attempting to kill Andrew Johnson and William Seward. This much is beyond dispute, but all of the events that took place after the shooting with the conspirators are not (Mills 1). In all there were eight people arrested ... his plan all figured out. He was to assassinate the president at the same exact time his co-conspirators were supposed to be murdering Andrew Johnson, the Vice President, and William Seward, the Secretary of War (Weichma...

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... Davis. Toronto: Birch Lane Press, 1999. Davis, Jefferson. Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 1823-1889. Ed. Hudson Strode. New York: DaCapo Press, 1995. Davis, William. Jefferson Davis, the Man and His Hour. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Davis, William. Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. London: The Free Press, 2002. Stephenson, N. W. A Theory of Jefferson Davis. The American Historical Review ... ...

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... . Nine 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 Seward. Seward lay in bed, recovering from a carriage accident. Paine entered the mansion, claiming to have a delivery of medicine from the Secretary's doctor. Seward's son, Frederick, was brutally beaten ... for the autopsy. These included (1) Surgeon General Dr. Joseph K. Barnes, (2) Lincoln family physician, Dr. Robert King Stone, (3) Dr. Charles Sabin Taft, (4) Assistant Surgeon General Dr. C...

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... , John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators became America's most wanted criminals at the time. Lewis Powell, one of Booth's co-conspirators had been directed to kill Secretary of State William Seward. He tried to kill Seward with a knife, stabbing him many times but Seward miraculously survived the assassination attempt and lived to remain Secretary of State into the Andrew Johnson ... ...

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... his nomination as presidential candidate for his own party, but due to his views and him winning the election in 1860, many southern states seceded. In a February 1, 1861 letter to William H. Seward he states: "that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil ... ...

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... Union and the Confederacy the power of brotherhood on the battlefield. Fighting in a war was something that blacks wanted to do even before the Fifty-Fourth Regiment. In a letter from William A. Jones, an Ohioan African-American, to Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War, we are able to see his true desire to fight. Jones wrote about how Ohio was a free state ... ...

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... . With the passage of the amendment, the institution that had infallibly shaped American history was exterminated. On Dec. 22, 1864, as the Civil War entered its final months, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln notifying him that he had captured the city of Savannah, Georgia, completing his 300-mile "March to the Sea"" that had begun in ... ...

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... Willie who died in the White House of typhoid fever in 1862. Our nation mourns the loss of this great president and man. SHERMAN GIVES LINCOLN SAVANNAH FOR CHRISTMAS!! After William Tecumseh Sherman captured and burned Atlanta, the General continued his march through the state of Georgia to the sea and Savannah. In the course of the five week march, he ... ...

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... take some action of his own against slavery. "For months, he had wanted to free the 3.5 million slaves who were the backbone of the Confederate economy. However, Secretary of State William H. Seward advised that such an act would seem hollow without a military victory showing the North's superior strength."" (Kowalski 20). Lincoln's chance came with the battle of Antietam. The union army ... ...

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... led by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. The split in the party caused a three-way horse race for the White House in the Election of 1912 . Involving Progressive Roosevelt, Republican William Taft, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson. The split doomed the Republican Party and made Wilson the victor. Lastly, ideological parties have existed for many years in the Third Party System. Parties ... ...

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... were terribly ill. His spirits were uplifted when he married Alice Hooper on October 17, 1866. The ceremony 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, Washington became a nicer place. It was nicer in the political and social aspects of ... ...

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