The know-nothing party seemed to be one of contradictions: they wanted to limit the rights of immigrants, while promoting an – agenda. why would a political party argue for limiting the rights of one group, but expanding the rights of another? while they did rally against certain groups, like –, it was mainly because these groups didn’t support the same ideals for which they stood, including abolition and –. ultimately, the know-nothings actually accomplished very little in limiting the rights of immigrants. all european immigrants benefited from being –. these groups had the advantage of being able to –, while free blacks could not.

When lincoln was first elected president, he hoped to prevent war by allowing (1) in the united states. as time went on, he saw the (2) of the war as putting an end to slavery. once the civil war was over, president lincoln did not intend to (3) the south. he felt everyone had suffered enough. he wanted to the south, and the whole country, rebuild. the process of rebuilding the country following the civil war was called (4) the official surrender by general lee to general grant occurred at (5) and the terms were generous to the south. the terms of surrender said that the southern soldiers could go (6) and would not be prosecuted for (7) it also said that they must surrender their (8) but could keep their (9) officers were allowed to keep their (10) in order to make the achievements of the war permanent, three (11) were added to the u.s. constitution.