Identifier: essentialsofunit00mowr (find matches)
Title: Essentials of United States history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Blanche Swett, Mrs., 1870-
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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for Vice-President FrancisP. Blair of Missouri. Of the two hundred and ninety-fourelectoral votes, Grant and Colfax received two hundred andfourteen and were elected. SUMMARY On the same day that the United States flag was again raisedover Fort Sumter, President Lincoln was assassinated. Hewas succeeded by Vice-President Johnson, who was confrontedby the great task of reconstructing the Southern states. TheUnion armies were disbanded and the soldiers quietly returnedto their homes. The thirteenth amendment, which abolishedslavery, was adopted, and this was followed by the fourteenthand by the fifteenth, which gave suffrage to the negroes. Serious disagreements occurred over the methods for recon-struction of the states which had seceded. Congress impeachedthe President but failed to convict him. During this administration Alaska was purchased, the Atlan-tic cable was successfully laid, and a treaty was made withChina. Emperor Maximilian was executed in Mexico and therepublic restored.
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t« 2 <»« -l-sio-cli-e P ^q 353 3 S3 S 5 ; £j UU 2222SS23 GRANTS ADMINISTRATION (1869-1877) 323 CHAPTER XXXII GRANTS ADMINISTRATION (1869-1877) 421. The First Pacific Railroad. — During the Civil War thesubject of a railroad over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacificcoast was discussed. It was thought to be almost an impos-sibility. As early as 1862, however, an act was passed byCongress incorporating the Union Pacific Company, whichbuilt the road from Denver, Colorado, to Ogden, Utah. Laterthe government extended its aid until this company had re-ceived twenty-seven million dollars in money and twelve

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