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☆☆☆☆☆John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington DC
vicksburg
The battle was more brutual than people expected
the public was shocked and horrified by the large number of dead and injured. (novanet)
They were from the same town.
Harriet Tubamn
Slaves and farmers who asked landowners for land to work would be the least benefit since they would get, usually, indebted to that person.
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
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
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.
because of antislavery sentiment at home and abroad
During that time Taney led the Supreme Court, which declared slaves to be property.
