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Lincoln signed the  Chinese/American Treaty of Tianjin. This was the second treaty between two countries.

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The Lincoln Memorial honors the 16th and perhaps greatest president of the United States, and symbolizes his belief in the freedom and dignity of all people. Lincoln saved the Union, but in doing so, he also preserved America's high ideals.

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During Lincolns Presidency, he became friends with the former slave Frederick Douglass. This was good, because it showed people that no matter what race you are or your background you can still become friends and/or allies.

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Abraham Lincoln led the Union to victory. Lincoln had to face extraordinary pressures during the Civil War: huge casualties on the battlefield, generals who were not ready to fight, opposition in North from groups like the Copperheads or Peace Democrats and assassination threats. Despite all this, Lincoln continued the fight to preserve the Union. Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. Six days later Lincoln was assassinated.

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In Lincolns first term of presidency, the civil war broke out. The civil war started on April 12, 1861 and led to April 9, 1865.

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One of the things Abraham Lincoln did that helped the economics of the country, was that he approved the Reinstatement of a National Bank. “The national system will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money,” Lincoln said in his 1864 State of the Union address.

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Lincoln also issued the first paper currency for American use. By signing the Legal Tender Act of 1862, Lincoln issued a fiat currency of dollar bills, to help finance the Civil War. However, once the war ended, Lincoln’s administration continued to enforce the use of legal dollars among citizens and banks.

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During Lincolns Presidency, he instituted Income Tax. Although it was only 3 percent on incomes greater than $800, according to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, it was the first step toward a full income tax system that was ratified with the 16th Amendment in 1913.

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From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their urging that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.

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At dawn on November 29, 1864, approximately 675 U.S. volunteer soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a village of about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. Using small arms and howitzer fire, the troops drove the people out of their camp. While many managed to escape the initial onslaught, others, particularly noncombatant women, children, and the elderly fled into and up the bottom of the dry stream bed. The soldiers followed, shooting at them as they struggled through the sandy earth. Since the barbarism of November 29, the Sand Creek Massacre maintains its station as one of the most emotionally charged and controversial events in American history, a tragedy reflective of its time and place. The

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Freedmen's Bureau, (1865–72), during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

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The Morrill Land Grant Act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens. The new land-grant organization, which highlighted agriculture and mechanic arts, opened opportunities to thousands of farmers and working people previously rejected from higher education.

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The Homestead Act, established during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to improve the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land.

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The Pacific Railway Act provided Federal assistance in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.

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The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy captured two Confederate envoys from a British Royal Mail steamer; the British government protested vigorously.

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Lincolns administration also established national financial institutions to reduce economic tension and help Americans take advantage of a nationwide marketplace.

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In Lincolns Inaugural Address he said, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you…. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” Lincoln was telling the America, that the country should be united, not divided and on the edge of starting a civil war.

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The Union was the north, which was fighting against the south, because of slavery and the power government had.

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Lincoln rallied most of the Democrats to the Union cause, so that they would have more soldiers.

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Abraham Lincoln built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.