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Main Forums => Flamer's Corner => Topic started by: jeee on May 18, 2008, 07:24:51 PM
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so.....
I watched national treasure part 2 tonight, being a history addict i browsed the internet for facts that would lead me to a next victory in Trivia
I looked up Abe to refresh me and:
It is very widely known that the reason you are looking at this page is because you are doing a school project,a nd I would like to inform you that this website is not a verifiable source. Imagine, if you will, that my intentions were worse and I had changed all the legitimate facts on this page just to make you fail. I could, you know. I already wrote all of this, right? Enjoy your project. And use another source.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a month after the war's end. Before his election as President, Lincoln was a lawyer, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
remarkable
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He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
I wouldn't trust this site. He doesn't even mention the Emancipation Retraction in 1864.
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I should have added that this is wikipedia.
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I wouldn't trust this site. He doesn't even mention the Emancipation Retraction in 1864.
There was a retraction ?
... Got links ?
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This was interesting in a deja vu-ish way:
Civil liberties suspended
During the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he used his war powers to proclaim a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial.
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There was a retraction ?
... Got links ?
(http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/481/roflps8.gif)
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(http://hyperion.org/retraction.jpg)
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Abe is pretty good in civ4