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Abraham Lincoln squeeze Internal Improvements
Jesse William Weik, The Intimidating Lincoln; A Portrait
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922)
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1837 Internal Improvements Legislation
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State Legislature tabled 1839-1840
The State of affairs Legislature acquit yourself 1840-1841
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Internal Improvements Speech
Lincoln and Railroads
Illinois Central Railroad
Rock Island Case
Transcontinental Railroad
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Abraham Lincoln
Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lincoln’s life and works
* All of the speeches, essays and addresses, with individual contents tables
* Features ‘The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln’ based on the seminal Constitutional Edition, edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the Speeches, Letters and Addresses
* Easily locate the works you want to read
* Includes a section of ‘Posthumous Publications’, with important books preserving Lincoln’s memorable and witty sayings
* Special section of ‘Tributes and Appraisals’, with 14 essays evaluating Lincoln’s great achievements
* Features no less than 11 biographies – discover Lincoln’s incredible life
* Includes the first ever biography of the president, penned by John Locke Scripps in 1860, appearing here for the time in digital publishing
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Volume 1: 1832-1843
Volume 2: 1843-1858
Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Part I
Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Part II
Volume 5: 1858-1862
Volume 6: 1862-1863
Volume 7: 1863-1865
Index of Speeches, Letters and Add
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US
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John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. Drawing from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–75. | |
| Location | Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Date | April 14, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-04-14) 10:15 pm |
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| Perpetrators | John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators |
| Motive | Revenge for the (then-recently) defeated Confederate States |
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play,[2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.[3] He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated.[4] His funeral and burial were marked by an extended period of national mourning.
Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part