The North and South each held different positions as to why they fought the war. ... Southern states held a political view where they felt the state governments should hold more power than the federal government. ... These were not slaveholders, but in fact, held a rivalry with the higher status-men the Slave-Holding Elite. ... They fought because they held nationalism in their Southern way of life and identities. ... Because they weren't able to stay home and support their families, thousands of wives and children experienced famine, especially as a result of Union barricades of Sou...

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It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. ... Elections were held in each state with black males having the right to vote. ... A Klan's member would ride up to a house and drag the person from his or her own home. ...

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Abraham Lincoln held many professions, including shopkeeping and blacksmithing before he decided to study law and pursue a political career. ... Shortly after the assassination of President Lincoln, the Lincoln family moved to a home at 3014 N. ... The family of President Kennedy moved to a home at 3017 N. ...

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It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. ... Elections were held in each state with black males having the right to vote. ... A Klan's member would ride up to a house and drag the person from his or her own home. ...

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His home was Springfield, Illinois. ... Southern Democrats held a separate convention and nominated John C. ... The violence escalates when the Home Guard, a group of pro-Union German immigrants serving with the Union forces, return fire into the crowd. ... Although the Union commander attempts to dismiss the Home Guard to restore peace, rebel mobs continue to rampage, burning buildings throughout the night. The Home Guard is called out once more to end the riots. ...

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"His oratory made as great an impression in Great Britain as it had at home"3. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ... Douglas was present at the first feminist convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848. ...

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At the age of eight, little Abraham already was chopping wood for the home. ... Finally, in early 1844 they purchased a frame house in the city that would serve as their home for the next sixteen years. ... Lincoln's most significant action as president to be his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Lincoln proclaimed that all slaves held in rebellious areas were "then, thence-forward, and forever free." ...

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His dad Jacob Johnson, and his mom, Mary Johnson, both worked hard to maintain the home by working for Casso's Inn, which was a popular inn and stable. ... The resident of the home threatened to call the cops, so Johnson left the town and deserted his apprentice job at the tailor shop. ... He held the position until 1864. ...

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Frederick Douglass vs. David Crockett Frederick Douglass was a black American, who was one of the most acclaimed human rights leaders of the 19th century. Known to be one of the most famous slavery abolitionists and also became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government. Da...

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"Douglass Proves the American Dream" The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. ... He wanted his people to be able to circulate freely-attending schools, gain employment, buy houses, use public transport and accommodations, vote, speak one's own voice, and being held innocent until proven guilty. ... Once freedom was attained, churches, schools, and homes were burned and blacks were murdered in the south. ... " And by virtue of the power and for th...

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Once he left home he was a simple shopkeeper and manual laborer cutting wood until his first political position in 1834 after losing in his 1832 campaign when he was elected to the House of Representative for Illinois as a member of the whig party. ... The senate campaign was held with seven different debates in different cities. ... This was one of the most important and famous speeches in American history, Lincoln stated "And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, ...

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I have read all the papers I have been able to get my hands on, but have seen nothing said of my brother, except that he has been detained at home on account of sickness. ... Chief justice John Marshall was a leading citizen and presided at the famous treason trial of Aaron Burr held in the Capitol Building. ...

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Andrew Johnson In the year 1808, Andrew Johnson was born, from childhood to presidency. I outlined key points, which include: His Childhood, which briefly describes how his family was like, how he grew up and how he accomplished his goals. His presidency outlines, how he accomplished his vic...

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However, no one who had held office or had fought under the Confederacy would be aloud to vote or serve as a delegate to a state constitutional convention. ... Now that blacks had gained political rights, they still sought jobs, homes, and education. ...

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Although each state's codes were slightly different they all held the sole purpose to control and restrain the freedom of former slaves. ... They would rape black women, burn crosses, whip well-known black leaders, and ransack home which blacks lived in. ...

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People who were once treated as less than human, now have the power to vote, and not only that, but can become a leader of the same nation that once held them captive in shackles. ... When the Europeans came into their villages, they used violent force to remove them from their homes and pack them into the ships. ...

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The Southern states supported slavery because the slave population held more than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their industrialization. ... The great war was over, but that didn't mean any good because millions of free slaves and white people found themselves without any money or homes, and much of the South lay in ruins due to the war. ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Their world was a private one, of home and family, "they were domestic creatures who depended on fathers and husbands to represent them in public sphere."...

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There was now a new swing vote and now politicians had to be cautious of their stance on civil liberties because this group of voters held sway in electing candidates or passing legislation. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. ...

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Nadia Boulanger To see ideas that were once held in the face of much persistent inertia and doubt come within reach of being realized is a source of great satisfaction. ... Homer We need men who can dream of things that never were. ...

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Northerners believed that slavery was morally improper and that it should not be allowed in their country while Southerners believed that it was their right and that no one should tell them that their long-held customs and traditions were wrong. ... Lee, who had distinguished himself in the Mexican-American war, but Lee could not go against his home state of seceded Virginia. ...

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Women held fairs and benefit concerts to raise money for the cause. ... Then later on the second Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cotton fields, and their friends could nothing but help them. ...

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Sometimes their homes even became stations on the underground railroad. ... Their homes often became stations on the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. ... In fact, the idea for the first convention for women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, grew out of women abolitionists' dissatisfaction with the limitations placed on their role. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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The Day Lincoln Was Shot List of Characters Note: All ages are as of April 14, 1865 Lincoln Family Abraham Lincoln- assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at age of 56- 16th President of the U.S.A.-thought it was likely he would be assassinated and face a violent death- hated...

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