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1 day ago · Republican. The 1872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. Despite a split in the Republican Party, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democratic -endorsed Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley . Grant was unanimously re-nominated at the ...
1 day ago · Constitutional provision for racial equality for free blacks was enacted by a Republican Congress led by Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull. The "second founding" comprised the 13th , 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution.
1 day ago · The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency.
2 days ago · Senators Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, and John Henderson of Missouri, sponsored resolutions for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery nationwide. The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified by the states on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery "within the United States, or any place subject to their ...
2 days ago · Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois summarized the impact of that legislation by saying it guaranteed to all citizens the fundamental rights belonging to every man as a free man: the right to make contracts, to sue in court, to be sure that the state would protect their property and person.
2 days ago · Expand Timeline. Homecoming Speech at Chicago. by Stephen A. Douglas. July 09, 1858. Edited and introduced by Jason W. Stevens. Version One. Version two. Study Questions. What is the basis of Douglas’s opposition to the Lecompton Constitution?
2 days ago · He wove together practical examples of women’s political activism from the ancient world to the American Revolution with a theoretical argument in favor of women’s essential public role in republican societies, in particular as a natural outgrowth of their private role in the home and family. —Sarah A. Morgan Smith.
