Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan ? Atomic scientists convinced him it was the best way to test t
he new weapon He sought revenge against the Japanese for bombing Pearl Harbor The American people demanded that he use the deadly weapon believed it was the only way Japan would accept an unconditional surrender
In 1828, a teen aged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace.
