On January 1 in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in states under Confederate control. ... With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1954, Lincoln became devoted to a cause for the first time in his career. It aroused Lincoln, in his words, "as he had never been before". ... President Lincoln was a truly remarkable person. ... January 1st is a day that should be remembered and commemorated every year as a reminder of the great impact that President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has had on the African American&#x...

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Even President Abraham Lincoln dates the birth of our country to July 4, 1776. ... However, Abraham Lincoln once stated, "The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use." ...

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President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, "A house divided against itself cannot stand", come to mind when discussing the current state of affairs within our modern government. It is true that Lincoln's message was originally intended to address the division of slave and slave-free states, but these words ring no less true when applied to the division of American politics between parties of interest. ...

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The American democracy is one of the most peaceful kinds of government in the world. The democracy in which we live has many strengths and weaknesses. Neither strengths nor weaknesses out weigh one another, but it is necessary to have both due to the varying definitions. In the dictionary definition...

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Sept. 22, 1862: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 1. to free slaves of the Confederacy B. ... In September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves of the Confederacy. ...

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As we begin the twenty-first century, I find that there is a fine line that is growing thinner between a United States citizen's individual rights and safety for the general public order. As the years pass, there are fewer individual rights that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and th...

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In 1839, two Portugese slave hunters acquired fifty-three slaves in Havana, Cuba. Jose Ruiz purchased 49 slaves, and his friend, Pedro Montes acquired 4 Africans. Ruiz hired a man named Ramon Ferrer to take them in his schooner, the Amistad, to a Cuban coastal town, Puerto Principe. Aboard the s...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances (1st Amendment of the US Co...

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Abraham Lincoln had to point that out when he strived for the emancipation of the black slaves in his later writings, as well as circling out the inconsistencies that lied under the words of the Declaration of Independence, and the actions that followed it. ...

• Word Count: 1008
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate