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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane
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June 4, 2012
    I. Historical Time Period: 1860’s
        A. Politics
          1. Presidents- Abraham Lincoln (1861).
              a. Republican (1854–1865)
              b. National Union (1864–1865)
          2. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises the American Civil War.
              a. Lincoln preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. (Kelly)
              b. Was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. (Kelly)
              c. Lincoln had many nicknames but his memorable ones are Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator. (Kelly)
              d. Abraham Lincoln served a single term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. His foray into national politics seems to be as unremarkable as it was brief. He was the lone Whig from the state of Illinois, showing party loyalty, but finding few political allies. He used his term in office to speak out against the Mexican-American War and supported Zachary Taylor for president in 1848. (Anderson 14)
              e. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Thomas was a strong and determined pioneer who found a moderate level of prosperity and was well respected in the community. The couple had two other children: Abraham’s older sister Sarah and younger brother Thomas, who died in infancy. Due to a land dispute, the Lincolns were forced to move from Kentucky to Perry County, Indiana in 1817, where the family “squatted” on public land to scrap out a living in a crude shelter, hunting game and farming a small plot. (Anderson 13)


        B. Controversies of Era
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