<span>WADE-DAVIS BILL 1. required citizens to take oath before readmission as a state
* Proposed by </span>Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis<span> of Maryland.
</span><span>* Originally submitted in 1864 but was pockety vetoed by President Lincoln.
* Bill was reconstructed and resubmitted after Lincoln's assassination and was passed.
FORD'S THEATER 2. site of Lincoln's assassination
* Assassination happened on April 14, 1865 - Good Friday
* Our American Cousin was the play that the President went to watch.
JOHN WILKES BOOTH 3. assassinated President Lincoln
* He was a theater actor.
* He attempted to kidnap President Lincoln in March 1865 but failed.
* He was killed on April 26, 1865. 12 days after he assassinated the President.
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS 4. suspended by Lincoln
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU 5. helped blacks adjust to freedom
* Official name: Bureau of </span><span>Refugees, </span>Freedmen<span> and Abandoned Lands
</span>* E<span>stablished in 1865 by Congress.
* Purpose: to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South that was greatly affected by the U.S. Civil War
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OLIVER O. HOWARD 6. chief of Freedman's Bureau
ENFRANCHISEMENT 7. right of some to vote
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The large qualities of silver and gold from the new world during the 1500s affected the economy of the western
The Indian reservation system established tracts of land called reservations for Native Americans to live on as white settlers took over their land.
The correct answer is national unity.
This speech was given just one month before the official end of the American Civil War. This war caused significant fighting between the Union and the Confederacy. This war caused the deaths of thousands of American citizens on both sides. As this war was winding down, Lincoln knew that these Confederate States would eventual become part of the US again. To ease this transition, he discusses how the US must "bind up the nation's wounds." When using this phrase, Lincoln is referring to how the Confederate and Union states must work together in order to unite the US once again.
It's been awhile since studied the French revolution, but I thought it had something to do with the French army using it to store weapons and ammo
