Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on 4 March 1865. As Lincoln prepared to speak, the Civil War was drawing to a close. Newspapers were filled with reports of the armies of William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. As late as August 1864, neither Lincoln nor his Republican Party believed he could win reelection. Now Lincoln would be the first president inaugurated for a second term in thirty-two years. The crowd of thirty to forty thousand was greeted by an ongoing rain that produced ten inches of mud in the streets of Washington. Sharpshooters were on the rooftops surrounding the ceremony. Rumors abounded that Confederates might attempt to abduct or assassinate the president
The writings of Adam Smith set forth the theory of capitalism.
Americans moved to Texas in 1800s because of cotton cultivation. Southerners needed land for crop rotation to make some profit but they weren't allowed.
Italy and mainly Germany began invading countries in Europe. For example, Hitler basically walked into the Sudetenland, accused the locals of mistreating German residents, and he just took it. He later did this to Czechoslovakia and many other countries and no one stopped him. Hitler wanted a Third Reich that would last for 1,000 years and so he felt that Germans needed more living room which was why he was shaking up the borders in Europe.
14,000 strong Parliamentarian New Model Army took on the Royalist army of King Charles I comprising less than 9,000 men, in what would to be the final key battle of the war.
During a cavalry charge on the western flank Prince Rupert's Royalist forces swept aside the Parliamentarian horsemen, chasing them from the battlefield and on to attack the baggage train.
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The main Royalist military force had been decimated; the king had lost his best officers, seasoned troops and artillery. All that now remained was for the Parliamentarian armies to wipe out the last pockets of Royalist resistance, which it did within the year.</span>
