What were some of the failed attempts to either harm or kill president lincoln

1) The Baltimore Plot (February 23, 1861) was a conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln en route to his inauguration.  

2) On August 1864 an undiscovered sniper´s shot missed Lincoln's head by inches. It happened as Lincoln was riding unguarded, north from the White House to the Soldiers' Home.  

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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