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    Union opted to free them. Abraham Lincoln, who belonged to the latter, would four months later, make one of the most memorable speeches of all time. This would be known as the “Gettysburg Address.” Lincoln would address the dead and the living soldiers, as well as civilians, on the importance of why this battle occurred, and why he believed…

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    remain as the largest slaveholding country. Before the war the division between the north and south was a rising problem, which reached its peak at the outbreak war, the division was based around the different opinions on slavery, the election Of Abraham Lincoln And the Kansas…

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    he made a lasting impression of it as well, Abraham Lincoln, he was our first president to get assassinated and that took a toll on everyone and all the things that were going on at the time. The Civil War was going on and it lasted for three years and we lost so many good people during that war. It put a lot of stress on Lincoln and how he should handle it with care and he had to think about how it would affect us in the long and short run. When Lincoln was elected to become president he was…

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    Abraham Lincoln and his Generals With all of his greatest, Abraham Lincoln has one major flaw, he sucked at choosing those to who led the American Army. His flaws lay in the fact that due to his inexperience military wise, he was not sure what it took for a general to command an army of that size. Most of the generals that he chose were men who thought the war rested solely on their shoulders, or worse men who knew that they were not ready for such a job, but still took it. The men who were…

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    Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president of the Unified States, composed this very Proclamation. The Proclamation was composed in light of the Kansas-Nebraska Act go by representative Stephen Douglass. Lincoln bantered with Douglass on the matter in the 1858 keep running for the senate sit. Amid the principal joint level headed discussion, at Ottawa Mr. Douglass gave a discourse here he states "In this manner that up to 1854, when the Kansas and Nebraska Act was brought into Congress with the…

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    grasp the idea of why Reb Saunders did the things he did. Mr. Malter’s statement is very true in most cases. One being Abraham Lincoln. He did a vast amount of great things but he was sometimes reserved while doing them. This sometimes made it difficult to understand him. Usually, great men are difficult to understand. Among…

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    Abraham Lincoln was our best president because he stopped slavery, allowed black soldiers to fight for the union, he was the only President of the United States to hold a patent, and led the Union to victory in the American Civil War. He didn’t think that white and blacks should have the same things as in schools, workplaces, and stores. He didn’t think they should have the same political rights as the whites. To end slavery he thought it would be good for the blacks to go to Africa or Central…

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    Picture this scene. It’s April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre, around 10:00 o’clock at night. The 16th president, Abraham Lincoln lies unconscious on the floor, blood and brain matter gushing out of his head. Crowds of raging, screaming people trying to force their way into the president’s box fill the theater. The play being performed onstage forgotten immediately, the actors taking part in the angry mob. This horrific scene was caused by one person, John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was a…

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    The night of Good Friday in April 14th, 1865 undoubtedly ranks among the most tragic and notable of all in American history. It was on this date that the ultimately fatal shooting of the great Abraham Lincoln occurred at Ford 's Theater; and forever changed the course of American history. The events of Lincoln 's assassination have since been surrounded by continuous mystery, and endless possible conspiracies; but one fact that is without doubt is the identity of the cold, steel killing device…

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    structural and argumentative patterns, and sensory-aesthetic dimensions of the text” and further labels Bush’s speech as a narration as it draws the path of slaves’ journey to America to the present day. As he compares the speech to Abraham Lincoln’s addresses, he notes that Lincoln clarified that while he disapproves of the actions of Americans in owning slaves, he is no place of judging others as it is only God’s place to do so. However, Bush makes a point in placing judgement on white,…

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