India and Pakistan became independent after the British gave up control of India after World war ll
Throughout the Civil War, Lincoln developed plans to bring the nation back together and to give the enslaved their freedom. He led the Union to victory during the Civil War in 1861, and issued the Executive Order known as the Emancipation Proclamation which is what freed the slaves in the slave-holding Southern States and went into effect in January of the year 1863.
He helped slaves earn their equality, made the nation a whole, bound the country back together, and he even helped families reunite with each other after the war.
Following Lincolns murder on April 14, 1865, when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth one week after the Civil War, Republicans in Congress moved to control Reconstruction. After Lincolns death, his successor, President Johnson, continued on with the process of Reconstruction, and rebuilding the country.
In general this idea was a success since Kansas became a "normal" state in the union that practiced and promoted the principles of popular sovereignty, although there were many hurdles to be faced. <span />
Network of farmer's organizations that worked for political & economic reforms in the late 1800s
