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John Wilkes Booth - Wikipedia  John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838  April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington,...
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Lincoln is shot - Apr 14, 1865 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in...
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John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln - Apr 14, 1865 - HISTORY  President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, Sic semper tyrannis! ... They decided to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward on the same evening.
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John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) - The Latin Library  John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 April 26, 1865) was an American actor who is most famous for assassinating Abraham...
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President Lincoln dies - Apr 15, 1865 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, President Lincoln dies on Apr 15, 1865. Learn more about what happened today on History.
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The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 - University of Chicago Press  "The black experience in the antebellum South has been thoroughly documented. ... January, whites in that state theoretically would not lose ownership of their slaves. ... In the month preceding the July 1863 lottery, in a pattern similar to the 1834 .... that "the colored people must and shall be driven to other parts of industry.
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Lincoln's Assassination and Lee's Surrender at Appomattox ...  Lincoln's Assassination and Lee's Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse ... Try it free for 5 days! .... and advised an evacuation of Richmond on Sunday, April 2, 1865. ... Legend says she could only find milk and crackers to feed her family at a cost of $100. Meanwhile, President Davis and his cabinet burned documents and...
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C.S.S. Virginia terrorizes Union navy - Mar 08, 1862 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, C.S.S. Virginia terrorizes Union navy on Mar 08, 1862. ... Six weeks later, a salvage company raised the ship and the Confederates began ... The most challenging part of the construction came in finding the iron plating. ... days among the Yankee sailors, and now they saw the creation first hand.
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Topic: America in 1850, The Triumph of Nationalism - The House ...  Daniel Webster, Speech to the United States Senate, March 7, 1850. In the 1830s .... 7. Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?," July 5, 1852
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The Confederate States of America - Fact Monster  The Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy, was the government ... 10. North Carolina, May 20, 1861, July 4, 1868. 11. Tennessee, June 8, 1861...
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Battle of Fort Sumter - Wikipedia  The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 1214, 1861) was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War. .... Under the cover of darkness on December 26, six days after South Carolina...
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Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 Analysis ...  Dive deep into James Russell Lowell's Ode Recited at the Harvard ... (the first line has four syllables) divided into twelve stanzas of varying length. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, and President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14. ... of the fallen to a high ideal, and a lengthy stanza pays tribute to Lincoln.
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TnTnyRD2 SpeedMatch Review Game - Super Teacher Tools  In his last annual address to Congress, Dec. 1860, he warned the South that secession was unconstitutional. He wondered if the force that pulled an apple to the...
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Constitutional Rights Foundation  First, under what conditions should the Southern rebel states be readmitted ... President Johnson himself opposed the idea of ex-slaves voting. ... treat the former Confederate states as "conquered provinces" and pass laws ... After these events, Northern states supported the 14th Amendment, but no Southern state ratified it.
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The War on American History - LewRockwell  Mar 15, 2001 ... Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore,And be ... large numbers of federal troops ("the Northern scum") into the city. As the Washington Times reports,. Maryland, though it remained loyal to the union, contributed ... The song, written in 1861 by Confederate sympathizer James Ryder...
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February 17, 1865: Burning of Columbia, South Carolina | Almost ...  Feb 17, 2015 ... Blaming South Carolina for starting the War, Union troops were eager to ... of Columbia after Sherman's army occupied it on February 17, 1865. ... the capitol of the Palmetto State the destruction that they believed was a just punishment. ... burning cotton of that morning was on fire, and that it was spreading;...
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Born: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, KY by Sherif Lado on Prezi  FONTS Abraham Lincoln Civil War Assassination Sadly, Abraham was assassinated on April 14, 1865, in Ford Theater by John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln
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Full text of "John G. Whittier, the poet of freedom" - Internet Archive  In the later poetical work of Whittier that pro duced after the Civil War purely literary topics ..... It is recorded that as many as sixteen were entertained at one time. ...... and, hearing that the crowd had threatened to attack the house, he saw his sister safely ..... The Slave-Ships," " Stanzas " ( u Our fellow-countrymen in chains !
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Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation - Jan 01, 1863 - HISTORY ...  On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. ... in a bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, ... would stimulate a rush of the South's slaves into the ranks of the Union army, thus ... On September 22, 1862, after the battle at Antietam, he issued a preliminary...
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The American Civil War (1860-1865) - The Latin Library  1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 ... of slave owners was 385,000 (including, in Louisiana, some free Negroes). ... April 23-May 3, 1860 - Democratic Convention opens in Charleston, South Carolina. .... November 14, 1860 - Mississippi Gov. ...... Anderson surrendered after 34 hours of bombardment in which over 4,000...
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Abraham Lincoln's Assassination - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Abraham Lincoln's Assassination, ... On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate ... 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.