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307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln most of the state's 130,000 German Americans voted Democratic but the German-language paper mobilized Republican support. In the aftermath of the 1858 election, newspapers frequently mentioned Lincoln as a potential Republican presidential candidate, rivaled by William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward...	1,000
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans. Lincoln argued that the Founding Fathers had little use for popular sovereignty and had repeatedly sought to restrict slavery. Lincoln insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground betw...	1,001
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's (Seward) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's (Chase) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery". In response to an inquiry about his ambitions, Lincoln said, "The taste "is" in my mouth a little." ## 1860 ...	1,002
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Candidate". In 1860, Lincoln described himself: "I am in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and gray eyes." On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln won the no...	1,003
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln led by Pennsylvania iron interests who were reassured by his tariff support. Lincoln's managers had focused on this delegation, while following Lincoln's dictate to "Make no contracts that bind me". Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightene...	1,004
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln selected incumbent Vice President John C. Breckinridge as their candidate. A group of former Whigs and Know Nothings formed the Constitutional Union Party and nominated John Bell of Tennessee. Lincoln and Douglas competed for votes in the North, while Bell and Breckinridge primarily found support in the...	1,005
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln new parties. Lincoln's ideas of abolishing slavery grew, drawing more supporters. People of the Northern states knew the Southern states would vote against Lincoln and rallied supporters for Lincoln. As Douglas and the other candidates campaigned, Lincoln was the only one to give no speeches. Instead, ...	1,006
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln "free labor", whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts. The Republican Party's production of campaign literature dwarfed the combined opposition; a "Chicago Tribune" writer produced a pamphlet that detailed Lincoln's life, and sold 100,000–200,000 copies. On November 6...	1,007
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Lincoln's victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123. # Presidency. ## Secession and inauguration. After the November election, secessionists planned to leave the Union before he took...	1,008
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, declaring secession illegal. The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional Preside...	1,009
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln a constitutional right." Lincoln did tacitly support the proposed Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln came into office and was then awaiting ratification by the states. That proposed amendment would have protected slavery in states where it already existed. A few ...	1,010
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Baltimore. On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C., which was placed under substantial military guard. Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states: Lincoln cited ...	1,011
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln friends. We must not be enemies ... The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."...	1,012
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Major Robert Anderson, sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter and began the fight. Historian Allan Nevins argued that...	1,013
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln on a volcano" and that the South was preparing for war. Donald concludes that, "His repeated efforts to avoid collision in the months between inauguration and the firing on Ft. Sumter showed he adhered to his vow not to be the first to shed fraternal blood. But he also vowed not to surrender the forts. ...	1,014
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln and was rewarded with the Confederate capital, despite the exposed position of Richmond close to Union lines. North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed over the following two months. Secession sentiment was strong in Missouri and Maryland, but did not prevail; Kentucky remained neutral. The Fort ...	1,015
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln corpus" in areas the army felt it needed to secure for troops to reach Washington. John Merryman, a Maryland official involved in hindering the U.S. troop movements, petitioned Supreme Court Chief Justice and Marylander, Roger B. Taney, author of the "Dred Scott" opinion, to issue a writ of "habeas corp...	1,016
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln an overall Union military strategy. Lincoln responded to this unprecedented political and military crisis as commander-in-chief, using unprecedented powers. He expanded his war powers, imposed a blockade on Confederate ports, disbursed funds before appropriation by Congress, suspended "habeas corpus", a...	1,017
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln be essential to success, and that any compromise would alienate factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions. Copperheads criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on slavery. The Radical Republicans criticized him for moving too slow...	1,018
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln his superiors in Washington, proclaimed a very harsh martial law in Missouri. Lincoln cancelled the proclamation, saying its emancipation plan was political, lacking military necessity and a legal basis. After Lincoln acted, Union enlistments from Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri increased by over 40,00...	1,019
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln The U.S. Navy had illegally intercepted a British mail ship, the "Trent", on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys; Britain protested vehemently while the U.S. cheered. Lincoln ended the crisis by releasing the two diplomats. Biographer James G. Randall dissected Lincoln's successful technique...	1,020
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln centralized the War Department's activities, auditing and cancelling contracts, saving the federal government $17,000,000. Stanton was a staunchly Unionist, pro-business, conservative Democrat who moved toward the Radical Republican faction. He worked more often and more closely with Lincoln than any ot...	1,021
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln met with his cabinet in the afternoon. Occasionally Mary would force him to take a carriage ride, concerned that he was working too hard. Lincoln learned from reading his chief of staff General Henry Halleck's book, a disciple of the European strategist Jomini; he began to appreciate the critical need t...	1,022
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Peninsula Campaign. McClellan's slow progress frustrated Lincoln, as did his position that no troops were needed to defend Washington. McClellan blamed Lincoln's holding troops back for his campaign's subsequent failure. Lincoln went as far as meeting with General McClellan in his home to discuss matter...	1,023
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Washington from counterattack. Pope was then soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac back to defend Washington. Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln restored him to command of all forces around ...	1,024
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Proclamation would not be perceived as the product of desperation. McClellan then resisted the president's demand that he pursue Lee's army, while General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee. Lincoln replaced Buell with William...	1,025
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Joseph Hooker. The midterm elections in 1862 cost the Republicans severe losses due to rising inflation, high taxes, rumors of corruption, suspension of "habeas corpus", military draft law, and fears that freed slaves would come North and undermine the labor market. The Emancipation Proclamation gained...	1,026
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln included attacks by Hooker on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans on Chattanooga, Grant on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston. Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May. He then resigned and was replaced by George Meade as Lee moved north. Meade followed Lee into Pennsylv...	1,027
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln states. Lincoln argued that slavery would end by preventing its expansion into new territories. He sought to persuade the states to accept compensated emancipation in return for their prohibition of slavery. Lincoln believed that curtailing slavery would make it obsolete. Lincoln rejected Fremont's two ...	1,028
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln of aiding the rebellion. Although Lincoln believed this was not within Congress's power, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature. He felt such action could be taken only by the Commander-in-Chief, using Constitutional war powers, which he planned to do. Lincoln discussed a draft of the Eman...	1,029
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln all men could be free, Lincoln stated that the primary goal of his actions as president (he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his "official duty") was that of preserving the Union: The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, with effect on January 1, 1863, declared...	1,030
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Union armies advancing south liberated three million slaves. Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves. He suppo...	1,031
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once". By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley. ### Gettysburg Address (1863). Lincoln spoke at the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863. Defy...	1,032
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln liberty and equality for all. He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end, and the future of democracy would be assured, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth". ### General Grant. Grant's vi...	1,033
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln the Potomac persuaded Lincoln to promote Grant to supreme commander. Grant stayed with Meade's army and told Meade what to do. Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a presidential candidacy in 1864, as was McClellan. Lincoln arranged for an intermediary to inquire into Grant's political...	1,034
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln it out on this line if it takes all summer." Grant's army moved steadily south. Lincoln traveled to Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia to confer with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. Lincoln replaced the Union losses by mobilizing support throughout the North. Lincoln authorized Grant to ...	1,035
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln at him, "Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!" As Grant continued to attrit Lee's forces, efforts to discuss peace began. Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads. Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as ...	1,036
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln factions, along with War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson. Lincoln used conversation and his patronage powers—greatly expanded from peacetime—to build support and fend off the Radicals' efforts to replace him. At its convention, the Republicans selected Johnson as his running mate. ...	1,037
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln not show the pledge to his cabinet, but asked them to sign the sealed envelope. While the Democratic platform followed the "Peace wing" of the party and called the war a "failure", their candidate, McClellan, supported the war and repudiated the platform. Lincoln provided Grant with more troops and led...	1,038
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln carried all but three states, including 78 percent of Union soldiers. On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address. In it, he deemed the endless casualties to be God's will. Historian Mark Noll claims this speech to rank "among the small handful of semi-sacred texts by which America...	1,039
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln meaning in the war even when it had passed, and did not want to continue to outcast the southern states. His main goal was to keep the union together. He planned to go forward not by focusing on who to blame, but on how to rebuild the nation as one. Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction pol...	1,040
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance. As Southern states fell, they needed leaders while their administrations re-formed. In Tennessee and Arkansas, Lincoln appointed Johnson and Frederick Steele as military governors, respectively. In Louisiana, Lincoln ordered General ...	1,041
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln representatives from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Lincoln's appointments were designed to harness both moderates and Radicals. To fill Chief Justice Taney's seat on the Supreme Court, he named the Radicals' choice, Salmon P. Chase, who Lincoln believed would uphold his emancipation and paper mon...	1,042
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln the House of Representatives. Passage became part of the Republican/Unionist platform. After a House debate, the second attempt passed on January 31, 1865. With ratification, it became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6, 1865. Lincoln believed the federal governmen...	1,043
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln readmission under the control of southern Unionists. Historians agree that it is impossible to predict exactly how Reconstruction would have proceeded had Lincoln lived. Biographers James G. Randall and Richard Current, according to David Lincove, argue that: Eric Foner argues that: ## Other enactmen...	1,044
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Land-Grant Colleges Act provided government grants for agricultural colleges in each state. The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869. The passage of the Homestead Act and the ...	1,045
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln with long precedent), and a Federal income tax. In 1861, Lincoln signed the second and third Morrill Tariffs, following the first enacted by Buchanan. Also in 1861, Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, creating the first U.S. income tax. This created a flat tax of 3 percent on incomes above $800 ($ i...	1,046
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Pope to put down the "Sioux Uprising" in Minnesota. Presented with 303 execution warrants for Santee Dakota who were convicted of killing innocent farmers, Lincoln conducted his own personal review of each warrant, eventually approving 39 for execution (one was later reprieved). In response to rumors o...	1,047
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving had became a regional holiday in New England in the 17th century. It had been sporadically proclaimed by the federal government on irregular dates. The prior proclamation had been during James Madison's presidency 50 years earlier. In 1863, Lincoln declared the fin...	1,048
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known." Lincoln made five appointments to the United States Supreme Court. Noah Haynes Swayne was chosen as an anti-slavery lawyer who was committed to the Union. Samuel Freeman Miller, s...	1,049
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Chase was an able jurist, would support Reconstruction legislation, and that his appointment united the Republican Party. ### Other judicial appointments. Lincoln appointed 32 federal judges, including four Associate Justices and one Chief Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 27 judg...	1,050
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, five days after Lee's surrender. Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland; though he never joined the Confederate army, he had contacts with the Confederate secret service. After attend...	1,051
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln "Our American Cousin" on April 14. At the last minute, Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play. Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, fired at the back of Lincoln's head, mortally wounding him. Lincoln's guest Major Henry Rathbone momentarily gr...	1,052
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln while the city's church bells rang. President Johnson was sworn in at 10:00 am, less than 3 hours after Lincoln's death. Booth was tracked to a farm in Virginia. Refusing to surrender, he was shot on April 26. ## Funeral and burial. The late President lay in state, first in the East Room, and then in...	1,053
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln passed with bands, bonfires, and hymn singing or in silent grief. Poet Walt Whitman composed "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to eulogize him, one of four poems he wrote about Lincoln. African-Americans were especially moved; they had lost 'their Moses'. In a larger sense, the reaction was in ...	1,054
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln to reach his audiences, who were mostly evangelical Protestants. He never joined a church, although he frequently attended with his wife. He was deeply familiar with the Bible, and he both quoted and praised it. He was private about his beliefs and respected the beliefs of others. Lincoln never made a c...	1,055
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln language or imagery of the evangelicals; he regarded the republicanism of the Founding Fathers with an almost religious reverence. With the death of his son Edward, Lincoln more frequently expressed a need to depend on God. The death of son Willie in February 1862 may have caused Lincoln to look toward ...	1,056
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln he reportedly told his wife he desired to visit the Holy Land. # Health. Several claims have been made that Lincoln's health was declining before the assassination. These are often based on photographs appearing to show weight loss and muscle wasting. One such claim is that he suffered from a rare gen...	1,057
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln exposure times. Confirmation of this and other diseases could possibly be obtained via DNA analysis of a pillow case stained with Lincoln's blood, currently in possession of the Grand Army of the Republic Museum & Library in Philadelphia, but as of 2009, the museum refused to provide a sample for testin...	1,058
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln century. Historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton, and Eric Foner stress Lincoln's redefinition of "republican values". As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence ...	1,059
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln of republicanism itself." He highlights the moral basis of republicanism, rather than its legalisms. Nevertheless, Lincoln justified the war via legalisms (the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree), and then in terms of the national d...	1,060
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people." ## Historical reputation. In surveys of U.S. scholars ranking presidents conducted since the 1940s, Lincoln is consistently ranked in the top thr...	1,061
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln and 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, although the order varies. President Lincoln's assassination left him a national martyr. He was viewed by abolitionists as a champion for human liberty. Republicans linked Lincoln's name to their party. Many, though not all, in the South considered Lincoln as a man of ...	1,062
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln heroes, even among white Southerners. The high point came in 1922 with the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In the New Deal era, liberals honored Lincoln not so much as the self-made man or the great war president, but as the advocate of the common man who they...	1,063
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln on behalf of both liberty and tradition, and his devotion to the principles of the Founding Fathers. As a Whig activist, Lincoln was a spokesman for business interests, favoring high tariffs, banks, infrastructure improvements, and railroads, in opposition to the agrarian Democrats. William C. Harris fo...	1,064
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln "he was conservative in his complete avoidance of that type of so-called 'radicalism' which involved abuse of the South, hatred for the slaveholder, thirst for vengeance, partisan plotting, and ungenerous demands that Southern institutions be transformed overnight by outsiders." By the late 1960s, some...	1,065
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Dirck and Cashin, retorted that he was not as bad as most politicians of his day; and that he was a "moral visionary" who deftly advanced the abolitionist cause, as fast as politically possible. The emphasis shifted away from Lincoln the emancipator to an argument that blacks had freed themselves from s...	1,066
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln and attributed to extraordinary leaders who were "content in the midst of uncertainties and doubts, and not compelled toward fact or reason". In the 21st century, President Barack Obama named Lincoln his favorite president and insisted on using Lincoln's Bible for his inaugural ceremonies. Lincoln has ...	1,067
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln stamps and he has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names, including the capital of Nebraska. While he is usually portrayed bearded, he first grew a beard in 1860 at the suggestion of 11-year-old Grace Bedell. The most famous and most visited memorials are Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Ru...	1,068
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln and guiding American life". During the Great Depression, he argues, Lincoln served "as a means for seeing the world's disappointments, for making its sufferings not so much explicable as meaningful". Franklin D. Roosevelt, preparing America for war, used the words of the Civil War president to clarify t...	1,069
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln the second Navy ship to bear his name. # See also. - Outline of Abraham Lincoln - Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln - Dakota War of 1862 - Grace Bedell - Lincoln Tower - List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln - List of civil rights leaders # References. ## Citations. ### Historiography. - Barr, J...	1,070
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln President" (2015), essays by 16 scholars - Manning, Chandra, "The Shifting Terrain of Attitudes toward Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation", "Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association", 34 (Winter 2013), 18–39. - Smith, Adam I.P. "The 'Cult' of Abraham Lincoln and the Strange Survival of Liberal England...	1,071
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Organizations. - Abraham Lincoln Association - Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation ## Other. - Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress - "Life Portrait of Abraham Lincoln", from C-SPAN's "American presidents: Life Portraits", June 28, 1999 - "Writings of Abraham Lincoln"...	1,072
307	Abraham Lincoln	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham%20Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln incoln", from C-SPAN's "American presidents: Life Portraits", June 28, 1999 - "Writings of Abraham Lincoln" from C-SPAN's "" - Abraham Lincoln: Original Letters and Manuscripts – Shapell Manuscript Foundation - Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project – Northern Illinois Universit...	1,073
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond II (1107/1108 – February 1130) was Prince of Taranto from 1111 to 1128 and Prince of Antioch from 1111/1119 to 1130. He was the son of Bohemond I, who in 1108 was forced to submit to the authority of the Byzantine Empire in the Treaty of Devol. Three years later, ...	1,074
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch However, he did acknowledge Bohemond's right to personally rule the principality upon reaching the age of majority. Bohemond came to Antioch in autumn 1126. He launched successful military campaigns against the nearby Moslem rulers, but his conflict with Joscelin I of Courtenay enabled Imad ad-D...	1,075
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch He was born in 1107 or 1108. In 1104, Bohemond I returned to Europe to seek military assistance against the Byzantine Empire and left his nephew Tancred in Syria to administer Antioch. Two charters show that Tancred styled himself "prince of Antioch" in 1108. In September of that year, Bohemond I...	1,076
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch principality. Tancred died in 1112 and bequeathed Antioch to his sister's son, Roger of Salerno. Roger's legal status during his rule in Antioch is uncertain. According to William of Tyre, Tancred made Roger his successor "with the understanding that, at the demand of Bohemond or his heirs, he s...	1,077
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch Italian domains between 1117 and 1119 emphasized that he was the son of the prince of Antioch, but did not style him prince. After Roger and most Antiochene noblemen perished in the Battle of the Field of Blood on 28 June 1119, Baldwin II of Jerusalem hurried to Syria to save Antioch from Ilghaz...	1,078
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond would not be entitled to reclaim grants made during his absence from the principality. Baldwin II was captured in 1123, and the burghers of Antioch sent envoys to Bohemond, urging him to come to his principality. Bohemond reached the age of majority at the age of 16. According to Willia...	1,079
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch the overseer of those lands. Bohemond sailed from Otranto with a fleet of twenty-four ships in September 1126. # Prince of Antioch. Bohemond landed at the port of St. Symeon in the Principality of Antioch in October or November. He went to Antioch to meet Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who subsequent...	1,080
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch recorded by Usama ibn Munqidh, also occurred during this period. Bohemond came into conflict with Joscelin I of Edessa in 1127, although sources do not reveal the reason behind the enmity of the two Christian rulers. According to Runciman, Joscelin seized former Antiochene territories from Il-Bu...	1,081
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch of Antioch, imposed an interdict on the County of Edessa. Baldwin II of Jerusalem hurried to Syria to mediate between Bohemond and Joscelin in early 1128. Joscelin, who had become seriously ill, agreed to restore the property to Bohemond and to do homage to him. However, the conflict between Bohe...	1,082
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond's Italian principality, capturing Taranto, Otranto and Brindisi without resistance. He completed the conquest of the whole principality around 15 June. Taking advantage of the disputes between the Assassins and Taj al-Muluk Buri, atabeg of Damascus, Baldwin II of Jerusalem invaded Damas...	1,083
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch who made a surprise attack on Bohemond's army. Bohemond and his soldiers were massacred in the battle. According to Michael the Syrian, the Turks killed Bohemond because they did not recognize him; had they recognized him, they would have saved him so they could demand a ransom from him. Gümüshti...	1,084
157680	Bohemond II of Antioch	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemond%20II%20of%20Antioch	Bohemond II of Antioch According to Michael the Syrian, the Turks killed Bohemond because they did not recognize him; had they recognized him, they would have saved him so they could demand a ransom from him. Gümüshtigin had Bohemond's head embalmed and sent to Al-Mustarshid, the Abbasid Caliph. # Family. Bohemond's ...	1,085
157710	Farnham (disambiguation)	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farnham%20(disambiguation)	Farnham (disambiguation) Farnham (disambiguation) Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. Farnham may also refer to: # Places. ## Canada. - Farnham, Quebec ## United Kingdom. - Farnham, Dorset - Farnham, Essex - Farnham, North Yorkshire - Farnham, Suffolk - Farnham, Surrey - Fa...	1,086
157710	Farnham (disambiguation)	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farnham%20(disambiguation)	Farnham (disambiguation) urrey - Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire - Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire ## United States. - Farnham, New York - Farnham, Virginia - Farnham Creek, a stream in Minnesota - Farnham Lake, a lake in Minnesota # People. - Farnham (surname) # Fiction. - Farnham the Drunk, a character in t...	1,087
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour and cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences so...	1,088
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology of the term. The abstract noun "anthropology" is first attested in reference to history. Its present use first appeared in Renaissance Germany in the works of Magnus Hundt and Otto Casmann. Their New Latin ' derived from the combining forms of the Greek words "ánthrōpos" (, "human") and "lógos" (, "study"...	1,089
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology the natural history, or paleontology, of man, based on comparative anatomy, and the creation of a chair in anthropology and ethnography in 1850 at the National Museum of Natural History (France) by Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau. Various short-lived organizations of anthropologists had already b...	1,090
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology in 1843, a break-away group of the Aborigines' Protection Society. These anthropologists of the times were liberal, anti-slavery, and pro-human-rights activists. They maintained international connections. Anthropology and many other current fields are the intellectual results of the comparative methods de...	1,091
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology the epiphany of everything they had begun to suspect. Darwin himself arrived at his conclusions through comparison of species he had seen in agronomy and in the wild. Darwin and Wallace unveiled evolution in the late 1850s. There was an immediate rush to bring it into the social sciences. Paul Broca in Pa...	1,092
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology a whole, in its details, and in relation to the rest of nature". Broca, being what today would be called a neurosurgeon, had taken an interest in the pathology of speech. He wanted to localize the difference between man and the other animals, which appeared to reside in speech. He discovered the speech ce...	1,093
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology last two volumes were published posthumously. Waitz defined anthropology as "the science of the nature of man". Following Broca's lead, Waitz points out that anthropology is a new field, which would gather material from other fields, but would differ from them in the use of comparative anatomy, physiology...	1,094
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology influential among the British ethnologists. In 1863 the explorer Richard Francis Burton and the speech therapist James Hunt broke away from the Ethnological Society of London to form the Anthropological Society of London, which henceforward would follow the path of the new anthropology rather than just eth...	1,095
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology inventor of cultural anthropology, and his brother Alfred Tylor, a geologist. Previously Edward had referred to himself as an ethnologist; subsequently, an anthropologist. Similar organizations in other countries followed: The Anthropological Society of Madrid (1865), the American Anthropological Associat...	1,096
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology insisted that Darwin's conclusions lacked empirical foundation. During the last three decades of the 19th century, a proliferation of anthropological societies and associations occurred, most independent, most publishing their own journals, and all international in membership and association. The major th...	1,097
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology 20th and 21st centuries. This meager statistic expanded in the 20th century to comprise anthropology departments in the majority of the world's higher educational institutions, many thousands in number. Anthropology has diversified from a few major subdivisions to dozens more. Practical anthropology, the ...	1,098
569	Anthropology	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropology	Anthropology aims to promote worldwide communication and cooperation in anthropology", currently contains members from about three dozen nations. Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "social" anthropology in Great Britain and "cultural" anthropology in the US...	1,099

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