Abraham Lincoln, was the president of the United States from a period of time of four years (1861 to 1865), he was also a lawyer, and statesman. He was a skilled and one of the greatest orators in the United States history, giving hundreds of speeches that are still studied for their oratory and eloquence powers. In his speeches Lincoln defined democracy as the equal rights and equality of opportunity. However, he made a difference between basic natural rights like freedom from slavery and political and civil rights such as voting.
One of his most important speeches, was the one delivered after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, in this speech not only he quoted that "<em>all men are created equal</em>", but also that "d<em>emocracy is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people</em>", meaning that is the people who confer higher power and exercise it directly or by their elected representatives under a free electoral system.
Answer: Five countries each have the power to veto an action.
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On February 26, in the night Pike and his remaining men were captured at their fort by Spanish soldiers from nearby Santa Fe. Arresting the party as spies, the Spanish collected the rest of his men who had been scattered in the mountains, and marched them all south.
Commanded by: Zebulon Pike
Objective: To explore the south and west of the ...
Date: 15 July 1806
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Well, it's not the Ku Klux Klan, as that was a large group of people who wanted to have slaves all return to their work, I've never heard of C, and we barely touched on D in school. From what I've learned, however, the Freedmen's Bureau helped former slaves by supplying food, providing education and homes, etc.
