Abraham Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth. On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Southern sympathizer, shot President Abraham Lincoln, at...
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If you truly believe you have an authentic signed copy of the Gettysburg Address you should probably contact the Smithsonian...
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The US Civil War began on 12 April 1861 at 4:30 am when confederate forces in Charleston, south Carolina, fired on Union forces...
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I'm not shore, but I think hes about 5'8 (173 cm) to 5'9 (175 cm).
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The bullet which was lodged into President Lincoln's brain, did not exit. When the autopsy was performed, the bullet was found in...
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The emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves. It only freed those in the states that left the union. It could not free...
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Abraham Lincoln did not have a middle name-- Abraham Lincoln was his full name.
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Several areas. All along the southern seacoast the US Navy tried, throughout the war, to enforce a blockade, to prevent supplies...
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Lincoln's party , although not openly pressing for abolishing slavery, was strongly against expanding it to new states , so...
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Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, not Abraham Lincoln.
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It meant they would not have to face the British and French armies on the side of the Confederates.Whether they also felt a new...
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He wanted to take control of the rebellion and after the battle of Antitem, where the north won, he thought it was a good move to...
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Not sure about what Lincoln said but Thomas Jefferson said "slavery was like holding a wolf by the ears"
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Yes, a very urgent one. Lee's stunning series of wins in Summer '62 had brought the British close to granting recognition to the...
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Abraham Lincoln entered politics, and left the practice of law in 1846, when he was elected to the US Congress. Then in 1849, he...
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So many delays that some of the cabinet thought it looked suspicious, hinting that McClellan might possibly be a Confederate...
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He helped free us from enslavement.
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He had several accomplices: David Herald, Lewis Payne (AKA: Lewis Powell), George Atzerodt, and perhaps Mary Surratt, who's trial...
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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia
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Aaron Burr.After a series of long standing bitterness, political opposition between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and...
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He entered politics in 1832, when he ran for a seat in Illinois House of Representatives, but he lost the election. He ran again...
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...was moderate on the slavery issue, and had not yet started to worry about Britain planning to send aid to the Confederates....
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because he found some cheap land and Kentucky (where he lived before) had slaves in it that's why he moved to Indiana.
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There is one in the Simpsons but I don't know if it is real. MoreIt's not a genuine Mint coin. There are loads of private...
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LOOOL Abraham Lincoln was a immigrant ?
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The Emancipation Proclamation - a strange document which sounded like a Human Rights appeal, but was actually an urgent tactical...
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Booth did not want the slave states to be forced to give up their slaves and he did not want black people to be allowed to vote....
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With the exception of the air war over the north, the ground war occurred in southern territory. The north invaded the south, the...
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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No- the president does not have the power to appropriate money.
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Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. At the time, slavery was a huge issue that was dividing the North and the South. When...
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die of assassination. He was shot in the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth, a well...
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Lincoln Steffens was a journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and wrote on the beginnings of the government of the...
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Both the north because they wanted to get away from the past and the south because them and there family wanna be were they come...
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First time round - because the Democrats had split into two (North and South), so the newly-formed Republican party was bound to...
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Because he was a U.S. President.
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The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the...
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At Fort McNair in Washington, DC.
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The names of his children are Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace lincoln, and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln.
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Labor problems were not severe at this time. There are always some strikes and the unions always want to repeal Taft-Hartley, but...
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Yes, because after the war Lincoln was very forgiving of the south and would take them back without that much punishment so once...
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He stole their land, burned down their houses and turned their children into a super child soldier army that conquered most of...
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Since your question is so general it is hard to list his achievements. We could start with him as President in 1861, the ability...
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Abraham Lincoln was a tall man. He was a kind man and honest one too. Almost everyone knows him from his big, black hat.
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YES because what if something bad happened to a person and no doctors were working? what would happen?
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Lincoln didn't believe in slavery, but was enough of a realist to allow that the southern states should be able to keep their...
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Part of the preparations for the renovation included moving the clothing and boots he wore on that fateful night to the theater...
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Since 1909, the image of Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States) has appeared on the obverse of the US one-cent...
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180 = the electoral votes17 = states votes for Lincoln.-teddybearr.
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They moved west because there was a western migration after gold was discovered in California, and after the USA took a lot of...
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On May 2, 1863, Jefferson Davis and General stonewall Jackson gave Col. John Wilkes Booth the job to kidnap or kill Abraham...
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John Wilkes Booth. On April 14, 1865, President and Mrs. Lincoln attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in...
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he was too much of a people pleaser. in trying to make everyone happy he pissed them off. had it not been for the turn in the...
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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809.
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While attending a play at Ford's Theater on the evening of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot in the head at point blank range by...
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To assert the integrity of the United States, and to demonstrate that he did not acknowledge the Confederacy.
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President Abraham Lincoln won the civil war. He appointed many generals to complete this task. His goal was to preserve the...
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Elizabeth Keckley was a slave who became a dressmaker who made dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln and became a close friend and...
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Linkin Park is the full name.
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Well to be brutally honest, not one single thing. When you check the historical record you will find that Lincoln was a member of...
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AnswerBecause he recognized that if all men are created equal, as Jefferson claimed in the Declaration of Independence, and that...
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Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 am on April 15, 1865 at the age of 56. He died in a house across the street from Ford's Theater in...
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People came to hear the other speaker. It was not considered an important speech at the time.
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There is currently a living relative of Abraham Lincoln's, who is famous. Actor, Director, and Producer Tom Hanks, is is a third...
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Abraham Lincoln had less than a year of formal education. He basically taught himself to read.
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stupid it said justice as we will fight abolish and give them rights
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Abraham Lincoln was best known and famous for freeing the slaves as well as stopping slavery, and winning the American Civil War....
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It's doubtful. Besides, if the average person who writes answers on Faqfarm knew the answer why wouldn't everyone else? World...
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These are from a few months back: John McCain's Top Ten 1. 'Dancing Queen' ABBA 2. 'Blue Bayou' Roy Orbison 3. 'Take a Chance...
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Hannibal Hamlin of Maine and then Andrew Johnson of Tennessee
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The original source of the phrase is not a US President but Jesus, quoted in the New Testament (Matthew 12:25). He used it as an...
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Jailing the leading Southern sympathisers in Maryland without trial.By some standards, you could say the Emancipation...
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater, located at 511 10th St ,NW ,in Washington, DC , on April 14, 1865. Lincoln...
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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC while he and his wife were watching "Our American...
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AnswerGenesis 11:31 reports that Abraham's father, Terah took Abraham and his grandson, Lot the son of Haran, from Ur in Chaldea...
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Mostley for his reconstrution after the civil war, but also for the emmacipation procolmation, which freed slaves in states no...
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The 25th President of the United States was William McKinley from March 4, 1897 to September 14, 1901. His first Vice President...
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you put it in a incubator or the freezer
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Abraham Lincoln - the Father of the Republican Party - was its first ever President. The Republican Party or GOP (Grand Ole...
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Hannibal Hamlin (vice president-elect). Lincoln was elected on November 6, 1860. He took the oath of office or was inaugurated on...
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He was assassinated at the age of 56. He was shot on April 14 1865 and died on April 15 1865
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I don't think so. From what I can remember he wrote the Gettysburg Address himself, so I would think he wrote others himself too.
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Yes.Abraham Lincoln was very caring.
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To save the Union - and by implication, the huge cotton revenues, which amounted to half the exports of the pre-war Unired...
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Because he had a beard. Beards were very important during Lincoln's time and for this reason Lincoln held an influential position...
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He was buried for the first time on May 4, 1865 in a temporary tomb some 2 1/2 weeks after his death. Later his body was moved to...
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AnswerAbe Lincoln was born in Kentucky but moved to Illinois with his family later on. AnswerHardin County, Kentucky (now...
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