Republican Candidate Abraham Lincoln won the republican nomination, after three tries to elect a candidate though. ... Lincoln was a good choice for a president during this time of secession. ... Lincoln had a few concerns on what to do with the freed slaves? ... They called Lincoln a slave hound, even though he had a very neutral stance on it. ... The 6th Massachusetts regiment was the first to respond to Lincolns call for troops. ...

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Luckily or unluckily, Lincoln won the 1860 elections. ... All through the conflict, the major goal and objective of the then president Abraham Lincoln was to end the challenge of slavery in the U.S. ... Abraham Lincoln made every effort to see what he termed as a national evil stop and attempts of it being transferred to new territories paralyzed completely (Guezlo, 61). ... Since the North threatened to abolish slave trade and most importantly, the then president, Abraham Lincoln, they believed that the only way they could settle their differences on the slaves issue was through the war. ...

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Once the Southerners noticed the Republicans were making rather large changes to the usage of free slave labor and possibly a restriction on owning slaves, eleven southern states seceded.3 Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 quickened this secession for the South. Lincoln and the North were definitely against South's decision to withdrawal due to the thought of the matter as an illegal act and the formation of the Confederate States of America was invalid notion. The first set off the Civil War took place when John Brown, a white abolitionist took upon himself to free the slaves by se...

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They also lacked a strong leader in the mold of the North's Abraham Lincoln and their constitution as they had it set up concentrated too much on Sate and individual rights and not enough on the Federal side of things. ... Another reason that the South could not have won the war was that they did not have a leader in the mold of Abraham Lincoln. Not Abraham Lincoln but someone that was able to stay out of the way when that needed to be done and one that could rally support and gather and unite the sprite of the people that he was leading. The person that they had in Jefferson Davis was no...

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History shows that Abraham Lincoln won the election; that was more than enough to confirm their decision. ... Without any hesitation, President Abraham Lincoln immediately gives his assertion in the crisis that afflicted the United States. ... Regular military sent word to Lincoln in order that ammunition and food be delivered to the ailing army. Upon the remedy being acquired by the regulars, southern militia ambushed the supplies and mistook aid for an invasion by Lincoln and the Union. ... This victory by the Union gives them more confidence and renders Lincoln support by the common folk in...

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Abraham Lincoln, who was President at this time, wanted to save the nation by bringing the southern states back to the Union, but this "Great Emancipator" ironically did not have much intention of freeing the slaves. ... Pressure from blacks eager to fight, from abolitionists and from a few Army officers who needed men, as well as changing circumstances, eventually altered Lincoln's policy. ... President Lincoln was being bombarded with pressure to let free African Americans fight in the war. ... Finally, in the summer of 1862, with the realization that the war would not be won withou...

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Once Lincoln became president, many southerners were threatened by his anti-slavery stand. Lincoln along with his party took an abolitionist stand and viewed slavery as an evil. ... Kentuckians had ties to both the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate States of America president, Jefferson Davis, each of which had Kentucky roots. ... Lincoln supporters felt it was important for the North to acquire Kentucky's support because it was Lincoln's birthplace. ... Lincoln's supporters felt that the people's confidence in Lincoln would increase if ...

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Indeed, in 1861 southern states established a government separated from the Union and offered to President Lincoln a pay for the territories and a peace treaty, but Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederate States as a country and declared disunion as treason. ... Until 1863 there existed equilibrium between the Union and the Confederate forces, but Abraham Lincoln wrote a proclamation that named all slaves free. ... As we can see in the Cultural Studies of the United States of America's notes, Lincoln allowed slaves to take part in the war: "la Unión había reclutado a dos millo...

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The fight for independence for African Americans in America did not end with President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. ... At the beginning of the second chapter, "Lincoln Institute", the school Berea Hall is depicted. ... This was until just three years later in 1911 when the Lincoln Institute opened its doors. ... The Lincoln Institute expanded far across the state of Kentucky with satellite campuses. Such campuses like the Dorsey School which was, "one of the many schools in seven counties the Lincoln Institute served with programs designed to imp...

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Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) B. ... The Lincoln administration (1861-1865) was mostly centered on the liberal republican view and the beginning of the Reconstruction efforts closely mirrored those. Lincoln believed that ex-confederates and ex-confederate states should be readmitted into the union with little or no punishment. ... After Lincoln assassination on April 15, 1865 by actor John Wilkes Booth, Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the position of President of the United States (1865-1869). ... Once becoming President of the United States, he acted as though he were a radical repub...

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Slavery was most prominent in the south, and when the threat that the slaves would be freed when Abraham Lincoln was elected scared the southern states, especially South Carolina and Georgia. When Lincoln was elected the south withdrew from the Union, and the Civil War began (Ngeorgia). With factors like, Harper's Ferry, the decline in the south's economy when the slaves would be freed, and the election of Lincoln, it was impossible not to start a Civil War. ...

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The post-Civil War South is in shambles. With the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, the American South was in for a shock. How would this affect the culture that relied so heavily on slave-labor on vast plantations? Would the South just wither and be assimilated into the North?...

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(Outline) Ida B. Wells: A Crusader for America Introduction- Ida was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans. She was not a famous crusader for the cause but she did more than many know. I. Background A. Birth date and family ...

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Civil Disobedience has a long,distinguished history. Without Civil Disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have gotten very far in the 60's. Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. T...

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The Civil War ended nearly 150 years ago at Appomattox, but it still percolates through the surface of American society. The "Lost Cause", the tension between federal and local government, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of freedom in America are still intertwined in most people's memory of th...

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