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He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. Ulysses S Grant an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. Andrew Johnson A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. They passed the Civil Rights Act and the Freedmen's Bureau was extended immediately. Radical Republicans won over two thirds of the seats of the House and Senate. Split the south in two and gave the Union control of the Mississippi River reconstruction era between 1865-1877 where the union recognized itself to incorporate the states that had seceded during the US civil war *Describe the effects of Radical Reconstruction and what finally led to the end of the Reconstruction. Most violent battle of the civil war.įall of Vicksburg: Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, taking command of the Mississippi River. This three-day battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War because it crippled the Confederacy so badly that confederate troops could never again be able to invade a Northern state. Battle of Gettysburg: The final surrender of the Confederate Army took place here. Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel (2006).How many slaves were freed as a result of the civil war 4 million *Describe at least two major turning points of the Civil War. Barton, Lincoln at Gettysburg (1930, repr. Nevins, ed., Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address (1964) W.

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in detail from the spoken address, reads:įour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches.

19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. Gettysburg Address, speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov.

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