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☆☆☆☆☆Because of his views on slavery, Abraham Lincoln inspired both passionate supporters and equally vehement detractors. John Wilkes Booth despised Lincoln's desire to end slavery; Booth supported the Confederacy. After he assassinated Lincoln, Booth was surprised that the public opposed what he had done. He expected to be regarded as a hero.
He hoped to revive the spirit of the South and continue the War of Northern Agression.
John Wilkes Booth originally planned to kidnap Lincoln but then decided to shoot him.
the public was shocked and horrified by the large number of dead and injured. (novanet)
They were from the same town.
Southern democrats appealed to small farmers after the Civil War because they wanted to get the farmers to see that building roads would end in higher taxes. They also wanted to get the farmers to see that the higher taxes would happen if schools were to be built.
One way in which Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers was by arguing that the construction of new roads led to higher taxes. They made the same argument in terms of building new schools.
they worked to put white southerners back into power
The one that provided for basic needs of the war refugees.
Six Confederate Veterans founded the Klan after Slavery was abolished in the Civil War. It would be like a group of Nazi Veterans killing Jewish people after WWII
The carpetbaggers affected post-Civil War southern politics by insinuating themselves in the local southern economic and political structure. Proposing short-term policies that were profitable to themselves, carpetbaggers slowed the Souths post-war recovery by decades.
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The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
He couldn't declare war, because that would mean recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
So he called for volunteer troops - and the other side was in no doubt what they were meant for.
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didn't he want slavery everywhere?
A. The North focused on other political and economic issues.
During that time Taney led the Supreme Court, which declared slaves to be property.
