History

• President Lincoln was the 16th president of America
• President Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863 in the south
• Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by Wikes booth
• The Southerners had great generals line Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jaclson
• The american civil was was one of the bitterest wars in history
• According to Lincoln no state had the right to secede from the Union
• Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy
• The south needed a slave labour force for the Plantations
• In the famous Gettysburg address of 1863, Lincoln justified that the abolition of slavery as it violated principles of equality and liberty and reminded the people of the dream of the founding fathers of the United States of America
• Civil was broke out in 1861 and ended at 1865
• Abraham Lincoln despised slavery aand believed in the principle of democracy which rested on the premise
• In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe published her famous book " uncle Tom's cabin" which highlighted amd exposed the horrors of slavery
• The southern states threatened ti secede or break away from the Union and form a Confederacy of their own.
• The two major developments that took place during the American Civil war were-

  1. The great westward expansion.
  2. Industrial growth and development
• The northern states developed the plantation industry of cotton- growing plantation.
• Much of the cotton was shipped to the cotton mills in Lancashire in England
• The only available source of slaves were from Africa and living in America.
• By the middle of the 19th centurary,slavery had been abolished in the British empire
• An anti-slavery movement began inin the northern states of America demanding abolition of slavery in the United states of America
• The industralized nothern States did not need slave labour in the industries and on the whole did not approves slavery. Southern states on the other hand claimed that they needed slaves for the cotton and sugar plantations
• Slaves who provided cheap labour work considered "necessity" in the perdominantaly agricultural in Southern States
• The Southerners were often needlessly crule and Harsh in the treatment of slaves,this outraged northerners and the tention between the slave states of south and the abolition states of began to grow
• Lincoln believed that slavery was a vicious and brutal system .he was opposed to slavery
• The foundations of the democracy rested on the premise that "all men are equal".
• Birth of freedom and that government of the people,by the people,for the people and shall not peris from the Earth
• Civil war was not fought over the issue of slavery but was fought because southern had left the union. (I.e) on the issue of succession.
• According to Lincoln no state has the right to succeed from the union. therefore the confederacy had to be defeated and the union restored.
• Lee surrender to the union general Ulysses Grant in April 1865 the civil war came to an end
• What happened what mainly in the south and hard result in the impoverishment of the southerners.
• John Wikes Booth was an actor in the Washington theatre
• Abraham Lincoln was shot dead after 10 days of the victory of United States
• 1. Indian national movement was divided into 3 phases-
  2. Early Nationalist phase.
  3. Assertive Nationalist phase.
  4. Ghandhian phase
• The early National phase started from 1885-1905
• The assertive nationalist phase started from 1905 to 1918
• The Gandhian phase started from 1918 to 1947
• The early National consisted of the educated middle class intellectual community that were -lawyers,teachers'journalist and officials.
• The important leaders of the early Nationalist were Dadabhai narojini Surendranath Banerjee and Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• The early Nationalists belief that the British rule was a blessing and it had conferred benefits on India