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SecretarySenator of New York from 1849 to 1859 as a Whig and Republican
Secretary of State under Lincoln from 1860 to 1868
Bought Alaska when he was the Secretary of State

the group thathat was most
The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "copperheads", likening them to the poisonous snake. The Peace Democrats accepted the label, but for them the copper "head" was the likeness of Liberty, which they cut from copper pennies and proudly wore as badges.

The capture of Atlanta in 1864 by Sherman

Republicans had falseyfalsely accused Johnson for "high crimesa ndcrimes and misdemeanors" because

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Antietam gave Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
GettysburghGettysburg ended Lee's the north.
Vicksburgh
Vicksburg cut the where Stonewall JakcksonJackson was shot
Bull Run showed that the war would not be won quickly

NativismNativism, divided on slavery, rapidly declining in 1856

13th-Freed the slaves
14th-made slaves citizenscitizens, former Confederates couldn't hold federal or state office positions, repudiated Confederate debts, and proportionally reduced the state's representation in Congress if denied blacks the ballot.
15th-gave slaves right to vote

Said that when 10% of the voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S., your state was back in.
Proposed by Lincoln

"AN ACT to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,"