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Tag: American Civil War

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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case

6th March 2020
Tagged as: American Civil War, Civil Rights, Dred Scott, Emancipation, Equality, Law, Missouri, New York, Slavery, Supreme Court

Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.

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24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

24th February 2020
Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Andrew Johnson, Democracy, Impeachment, Johnson, Law, Slavery, United States, USA

Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.

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18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

18th February 2020
Tagged as: African-American, America, American Civil War, Antebellum, Books, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Slavery, United States

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.

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19th November 1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

19th November 2019
Tagged as: America, American Civil War, Civil War, Lincoln, USA

On the 19^th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.