Abraham Lincoln
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No.He spent less than 12 months, total in attending all schools as a youth. Each one was very small and the lessons were most...
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President Lincoln is famously quoted as writing: "If I could free all the slaves and preserve the Union I would do that. ...
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After he was shot, Lincoln never regained consciousness. His last words would have been something said in the theater box and...
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he was planning to end slavery sopro-slavery states started seceding from the union.
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Abe Lincoln was the Commander in chief in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln spent the war reading every book on war he could find....
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These "Lincoln Facing Kennedy" pennies were made by private companies mostly in the 1970's that took a normal penny and stamped a...
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The answers was Yes and No.Technically, the 13th Amendment is what abolished slavery.This occurred 6 months after Lincoln was...
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This is pure speculation - Someone else would have followed Buchanan as president. All of the reasons for the Civil War would...
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They did it because they were now getting paid for it, and they needed the work to scratch out a living.
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They both ran a country through a war, and were both hated by most members of the apposing side. Of course, Lincoln was a great...
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president on November 6 1860, and assumed office on March 4, 1861. He was re-elected on November 8,...
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You can retrieve this information by going to the following link: http://coins.ha.com/info/typevalues.php
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Booth shot the President, in the State Box, jumped over the opening ledge of the state box, and was aimed to land upon the stage,...
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Andrew Johnson.
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Because it could have allowed for new slave-states.
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It didn't really.Lincoln was hoping it would revive Northern morale by turning the war into an emotive crusade against slavery....
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To suggest Biblical gravitas
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lincoln's plan was definitely the most lenient.
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The rich that own 90% of slave
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Lincoln tried to reestablish peace between the Union ("the north") and the Confederates ("the south"). He offered amnesty, or...
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Willie Shoemaker was born on August 19, 1931.
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He told them not to in his first inaugural address. "Secession: According to Lincoln, the Constitution was established "to form a...
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Well, he was the President of the United States at that time and that made him the Commander in Chief of all the armed services....
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idk ask ur mama
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Lincoln is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.
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Yes, read this book called "What They Never Told You In History Class" and it will tell you he is black cause his mother was and...
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There was no formal declaration of was against the Confederacy, which can ONLY come from congress... as the Union deemed the...
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He was not born in a hospital. He was born in a Kentucky log cabin.
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The South feared he would end slavery, so many Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of...
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No. He mostly went to see the play. He enjoyed watching plays and the play he went to see was a hit at the time. Lee had...
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James Buchanan Here You go for you true historians! For many years in Washington, D.C. prior to the presidency, James Buchanan...
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AnswerBooth Killed Lincoln because Booth was on the south's side during the civil war, and Lincoln was on the north's. Booth had...
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The unions military cuccess
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He has been dead since 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln did not have a middle name.
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Years before Lincoln became president, the Rothschild s wanted to weaken the government in order to create a privately owned...
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Abraham Lincoln had an older sister named Sarah, who died in childbirth (February 10, 1807 - January 20, 1828), and a younger...
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Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, and to forgive the states that were defeated.
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no- he lost his battle for the Senate to Stephen A. Douglas in 1858.
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When the U.S. was formed, it was thought by many -- on BOTH sides of the Atlantic -- that a large nation could not survive...
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Abraham Lincoln didn't go to college. He educated himself by reading.
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Between 10:15 - 10:30, during the 3rd act of the play,Mrs. Lincoln was sitting very close to her husband, her hand in his. She...
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He was not originally fighting an Abolitionist war.It was when the war dragged on, and Britain and France were showing signs of...
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He didn't. He was killed at the very end of the Civil War. Lincoln never got to live long enough to see if freeing slaves...
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On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham...
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president who was a member of the modern Republican party. Some sources, particularly simplified...
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Mary Todd Lincoln is buried with President Abraham Lincoln and 3 of their 4 sons inside the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in...
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Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Washington D.C. in Ford's Theater. Actually, he was shot in Ford's Theater and then taken...
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No, he was not. His ancestors came from Hingham, Norfolk, England.
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Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin built by his father, near the town of Hodgenville in Hardin...
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Andrew Johnson's economy was ok when he was president. Although he was born poor, through his hard work he was able to make...
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a lock of hair
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Paul Muller won the medicine and physiology Nobel Prize in 1948 for discovering the insecticidal use of DDT.
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The initial war objective was to preserve the union.
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Maybe Scott #1036/#1058 - Purple sheet/mint ??? You can purchase one of them mint for about 30 or 40 cents, used for about 15. ...
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A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is on the front of the US $5 bill. If you look below the...
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So he could hold suspected spies wihtout trial.
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Lincoln was born in a log cabin near Hodgenville (Hardin County) Kentucky, he later lived in Indiana and considered Springfield,...
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I would call his personal life difficult. As a child and young man his family had very little money so he had few advantages and...
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Booth personally killed only President Lincoln. However, his co-conspirator Lewis Powell (aka Paine) made an attempt on the life...
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Well, it effected all of America. Slavery was abolished. This was a huge change for cotton plants which oprated using slaves, and...
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Elephants. In 1856, the King of Siam, his Majesty Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongut, had received a multitude of publications...
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Lincoln actually started the war to preserve the union, he used freeing slaves as a way to help preserve the union, he once said...
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Because it allowed slavery to continue in the four states of the Upper South that had voted to remain loyal. The Proclamation...
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He is a great part of history because he helped a lot to free slaves in the United States. He also wrote a very important...
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Abraham Lincoln did NOT wear glasses. At age 47, he began wearing glasses to read, only, which is a perfectly normal occurrence...
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Abraham Lincoln& Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln was president of the union, and the United States. Jefferson Davis was...
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Current Members are: Mike Shinoda - vocals, keyboard, piano, guitar Brad Delson - lead guitar. Dave "Phoenix" Farrell -...
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ANSWERThe Secession of most of the Southern States from the Union, the Proclamation of the Confederacy and the Civil War, which...
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When newly-elected, he tried to prevent the war by considering the Crittenden Compromise.But he rejected it because it would have...
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Suspended habeas corpus when he arrested pro-Southern leaders in Maryland, to keep this key state loyal.
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AnswerThe end result of the Civil War was that it was afterwards written into law that no state can leave the Union; the South...
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Lincoln's father was a Baptist, but Lincoln himself was never known to have claimed to be of the Baptist faith. He did attend a...
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Yes, James K. Polk was the 11th president, and served from 1845-1849. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president, and served from...
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Abraham Lincoln had 4 kids they were all boys. Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln. Unfortunately,...
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He was self educated. Abraham Lincoln went to school when he was 10 years old. Abraham Lincoln had less than 12 months total...
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because he was willing to fight for wot was right and didnt care wot other people thought. he showed great acts of heroism
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Four score is a number. A score is twenty, as a dozen is twelve. Four score is 80.
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In 1858, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln and Douglas were the Republican and Democrat candidates for the US Senate in...
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tell them to back and get out
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the 10% percent planthe plan was for was former confederates who swear to support the union and the Constitution and 10% of the...
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They were both concerned with the freeing of slaves.The first was not a law. It appeared to be a human rights appeal, but was in...
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I have never seen any evidence that Pierce or any other sane person in the US wanted a Civil War. There are some like John Brown...
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He freed the slaves but he also issued out the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963 and signed the Homestead Act in 1862 which...
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater, on April 14, 1865. President Lincoln died the next...
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One answer is that the sculptor and designer, Gutzom Borglum, was a big fan of Lincoln. He named his son Lincoln Borglum, and...
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Lincoln had two different Vice Presidents: Hannibal Hamlin (VP 1861-1865) from Maine for his first term, and Andrew Johnson (VP...
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as President, for two terms. He was elected in 1860, serving his first term from 1861-1864. He was...
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Nancy Hanks was Abraham Lincoln's mother and Thomas Lincoln raised him. That alone make them his parents. However, Thomas Lincoln...
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Emancipation Proclomation
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Lincoln's first paying job was bringing cargo up and down the Mississippi river. (He previously worked on the family farm but...
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