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Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina was one of the four forts that had not yet been captured by the Confederates, so Lincoln wanted to keep the fort at all costs in order to keep the Union's strenght in the South. He sent unarmed ships to supply the fort with military and food supplies. The Confederate President Jefferson Davis gave command to Southern forces led by General Beauregard to bomb the fort on April 12 to force it to surrender, which happened.
The Northern states all supported Lincoln. He called for the fortresses to be reclaimed and the Union to be preserved. At the same time, 75,000 volunteers were called up for a period of 90 days. In the previous months, several governors had trained their militias. Their troops started to move the next day.
The Abbasid dynasty fell to the Mongols and became part of the Mongol empire
President Harry S. Truman was the 33rd
president of the United States, taking the office after late Franklin D, Roosevelt.
Truman assumed the presidency during the Second World War and gave an order to
drop the first atomic bomb attack. After it appeared that Japan won’t
capitulate, Truman ordered first atomic attack on Hiroshima (August 6th
in 1945) and the second on Nagasaki (August 9th in 1945) resulting
in 214.000 people dying.
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When the Supreme Court rules on a constitutional issue, that judgment is virtually final; its decisions can be altered only by the rarely used procedure of constitutional amendment or by a new ruling of the Court. However, when the Court interprets a statute, new legislative action can be taken.
Taft-Hartley Act intended to limit the power of labor unions and their leaders in terms of negotiating salaries and exercising the right to strike. Many of these statutes are still in place.
