Mount Rushmore has served as a patriotic symbol that stands for America's freedom and history. ... Rushmore was an earlier contributor to the project giving a gift of $5,000 to help fund the gigantic project. ... Starting at an early age he knew his passion was art, but making a living as an artist was unheard of back then. ... Robinson suggested that it should be based on the heroes of western history. ... Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding fathers who marked his own importance into history and the freedom of America. ...

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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. ... History In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, supported banning slavery in all the U.S. territories, something the Southern states viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights and as being part of a plan to eventually abolish slavery. ... These four doctrines comprised the major ideologies presented to the American public on the matters of slavery, the territories, and the U.S....

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Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. ... He founded an antislavery newspaper, wrote several autobiographical books, and helped recruit African Americans for the Union army during the Civil War. ... Frederick Douglass is one of the most important people in American History. ... Another custom in slavery, probably also out of deference to the feelings of the white wife, is to part children from their mothers at a very early age. ... Dougalss said "I see, in the exclusion of the colored man from the Sixth Avenue Rail cars, the cruel and maligna...

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Indeed I must confess that much of my early research was confined to biographies of Lincoln, examinations of his presidency, and his speeches and letters. ... Also there are those who believe that certainly Lincoln took this step with its military applications in mind, but also was making an attempt to put an end to an evil institution that had thrived in America for too long. One such example is Mark Krug, author of The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. ... He made it clear even early in his career that he was opposed at least to the spread of slavery. ... Perhaps the best...

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817. It led antislavery protests during the early 1800's. ... Nat Turner - Nat Turner, a black slave and preacher, led the most famous slave revolt in United States history. ... More whites died during the rebellion led by Turner than in any other in the nation's history. ... The mob returned the following day and burned the hall, which had been inaugurated only three days earlier, to the ground. ...

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Surratt-didn't know about the conspiracy but she helped deliver messages and supplies such as guns-first woman hanged in US history Sam Arnold-ex-confederate soldier- Union store clerk-dropped out of the conspiracy-tried for conspiracy and convicted-later freed in 1869 Others Andrew Johnson- Lincoln's VP-Tennessee native-common man-poor drinker-Lincoln never really saw much of him-poor leader-died in 1875 Edwin McMasters Stanton-Secretary of War- important to Lincoln-warned Lincoln not to make public appearances-loyal, stubborn, hard working, emotional, hated-perfecti...

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