Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the Unite States. He had two significant accomplishments during his presidency. He preserved the Union, and he put an end to slavery in America. He gave his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg. It’s one of the greatest…
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The Preservation of Our Liberty
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. He also founded the University of Virginia. Here, he explained why public education is essential to our survival as a nation: “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance…