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Ulysses S. Grant |
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
William Tecumseh Sherman believed in total war and also captured Atlanta didn't like the Confederates. In Abe's second election (I think) most people voted for Abe because of William Tecumseh Sherman and his support for the north. |
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Edmonia Highgate |
One of the woman who helped during the civi |
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John Wilkes Booth |
Assassinated Lincoln, was caught and trapped in a barn couldn't escape then the barn was set on fire. Eventually they thought |
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Andrew Johnson |
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. |
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Ten Percent Plan |
Abraham Lincoln said that if 10% of the south made an oath that they would be allowed and readmitted back to the U.S , but then Wade David plan said no 50% of the states have to make the oath and not only 10%, and give slaves the right to vote. |
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Wade Davis Plan |
The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote. |
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Freedman's Bureau |
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). |
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Black Codes |
Black codes was a law that the south made for African-Americans, this law was basically another way of owning slaves. In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. |
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Lincoln's Assassination |
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. |