The event or incident that triggered long standing tensions in Europe and was the immediate cause of ww1 was the assasination of archduke Ferdinard and his wife sophie, in sarajavo by a Bosnian student.
A professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. Roman Catholic Church. a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith.
Thomas Nast drew a political cartoon to show the corruption that Boss Tweed had done.
It was to try and rebuild Georgia after the civil war. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation had to be followed by a constitutional amendment to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.