What did Lincoln do at Fort Sumpter?
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Lincoln didn't do squat there.\n\nThe second in command at the fort, however, was given the honor of firing the first shot in defending the fort against the South on April 12, 1861. The second in command was Captain Abner Doubleday - the inventer of baseball.  :)
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He was a colonel when the civil war (war between the states) started. Quickly promoted to general. And eventually became lieutenant general and general in chief.\n\nHis major contribution was dictating surrender terms to Robert E Lee (these terms were very generous, which Lincoln had intended).
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During the Civil War.
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Fort Sumter, located in Charleston, South Carolina, harbor, was named after General Thomas Sumter. However, the fort is best known as the site where the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.\n\n \nMap detailing the location of Fort SumterFort Sumter was built after the War of 1812 as one of a series of fortifications on the southern U.S. coast. Construction began in 1829, using some slave labor, and the structure was unfinished in 1860, when the drama began. Seventy thousand tons of granite were imported from New England to build up a sand bar in the entrance to Charleston harbor, which the site dominates. The fort was a five-sided (although not a regular pentagon) brick structure, 170 to 190 feet long, with walls five feet thick, standing 50 feet over the low tide mark. It was designed to house 650 men and 135 guns in three tiers of gun emplacements, although it was never filled near capacity.
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During the Civil War, the Indians on the Great Plains were generally peaceful. In 1864, Major John Chivington (a state militia officer) attacked a peaceful village of Arapahos and Southern Cheyenne at Sand Creek in Colorado, killing over 150 Indians. That attack ignited a general war with the Indians.In 1867, Grant appointed Sheridan to head the Department of the Missouri. His first task was to end the Indian Wars. His troops, even supplemented with state militia, were spread too thin to have any real effect. He conceived a strategy based on his Shenandoah experience. In the Winter Campaign of 1868–69 he attacked the Indians in their winter quarters, taking their supplies and livestock and killing those who resisted. This strategy was to continue until the Indians abided their treaties. A number of excesses occurred, such as the Wounded Knee massacre. The Indian raids subsided during the 1870s and by the early 1880s were almost over.
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It all started when the north won the civil war. Before there were states rights. Lincoln did away with them when he installed a "Centralized Government". Thomas Jefferson knew what would happen and it did. Lincoln wanter the federal government over all the states. Before the civil war...the states had the power. Lincoln had to declare martial law and take all the rights away from all citizens north and south. Since them the federal gives us rights as it sees fit. Before states had to give the power to the federal government. It made a big difference to the states both north and south. Lincoln was an atheist dictator thru out the civil war.
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First, it is true: Lincoln said he wanted to send the slaves back to Africa.  "My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia."  (Ottawa, August 21, 1858) \n\nThis is his words, check on his speech in Ottawa August 21 of 1858. But it was Monroe that actually sent some back.  LINCOLN did not send any slaves back to Africa.
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Abraham Lincoln built a log cabin, like the one in which he was born.\n\n         Lincoln spelled wrong, not capitalized.  Sentences are not supposed to end with a preposition. No one can build a house before he is born.
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The focus is on the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure for ending the war. Early in the war, Lincoln moved cautiously on the issue of slavery. However, he changed his policy after the first year of fighting. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the proclamation, promising freedom to all slaves in the Confederate States that did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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Both were admirable men, but Lincoln presided over the country during its only time of all out Civil War - not an easy feat by any stretch of the imagination.  He was also re-elected during the conflict, which is a good indication of his handling of the situation.  The Civil War was a tremendously destructive conflict, but the results could have been much more disastrous with the strong leadership exhibited by Lincoln.
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Yes.  Lincoln understood that the nation was threaten to fracture beneath his feet and he did what had to be done.  Of course it is important to understand that the South never really left the Union--the Constitution doesn't give states the right to seceed, but they thought they did and he had to impel them to return (in their minds.)
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The Confederacy (Virgina) bordered DC across the Potomac, so it had to be defended from attack. Abe Lincoln went to observe the fighting, and became the only sitting President to come under enemy fire.
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He kept the ragged Continental army together. He avoided a direct encounter with the superior British army. He never had enough men or supplies. This was up until Yorktown.\nHe later presided over the Constitutional Convention. He knew enough to let others who understood finances and government much better than he do their work. By the force of his personality he kept antagonists like Jefferson & Hamilton at bay.
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He did not so much abuse presidential power as he expanded it. \n\nHe convinced Congress to suspend Habeus Corpus. \n\nNothing in the Constitution prior to the Civil War suggested that states could not secede, but Mr. Lincoln forged an amendment in blood over the issue.
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Lincoln and the Republicans, a new political party at that time, opposed the spread of slavery to the Northwest Territories.  He outlined his reasons for opposition and the arguments put forward from the other side; then asked that opposing ideas be discussed civilly.
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, and the first from the Republican Party, on March 4th, 1861. He was assasinated shortly after being re-elected to a second term and died on April 15, 1865 from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C
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A past version of the World Book Encyclopedia put the first shot fired in the Civil War in Pine Bluff. (Fort Sumpter was the first shots fired by UNIFORMED forces.) It was a Union boat shooting across the bow of a Confederate Boat on the Arkansas River apparently right after war was declared. It is kinda the forgotten engagement of the war.\n\nAnother interesting one is the fact that Arkansas is the only state in the Country in which you can travel to all of the neigboring states, or territories by going south.  (Check it out on a map.)