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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)
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General Lee responded by having another shot at invading the North, which came to grief at Gettysburg.
To attempt to resolve the dispute between the North and South regarding slavery, Congress convened on December 3, 1849. The result of this convention was the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to choose, in the future, to become slave states. The South avoided adopting the Wilmot Proviso. A stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress.
They were from the same town.
An exceptionally talented President who could control a troublesome cabinet of heavyweights who had been better-known than him, and eventually learned to choose and use the best Generals.
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
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
Congress established the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) in 1914.
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.
