When the agreement was completed, Sherman sent it immediately to Washington for approval by the new president, Andrew Johnson.

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In exchange for this, Sherman said the president would recognize state governments in the south which promised to support the Constitution.

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The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

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Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.

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Researchers Paul Sherman and Jennifer Billing worked at Cornell University when their study was published in nineteen ninety-eight.

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The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

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And Sherman said the United States government would not interfere with any of the southern people, if they remained peaceful and obeyed the laws.

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Day by day,the Union army of General William Sherman cut and burned its way across Georgia.

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There would be no competition. President Roosevelt believed the new company violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.

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The deal was agreed to. Both the McKinley Tariff Bill and the Sherman Silver Purchase Bill were approved by Congress and signed by President Harrison.

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Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

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There would be no competition. President Roosevelt believed the company violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.

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In the west,William Sherman had three armies with more than one hundred thousand men.

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Sherman's campaign had cut a great wound in the heart of the Confederacy.

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Soon,both Sherman and Blaine asked all of their delegates to vote for Garfield.

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President Johnson held a cabinet meeting to discuss the agreement Sherman had signed.

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They said Sherman had no power to make any kind of political settlement.

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Sherman's western army was there from battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg,Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Atlanta.

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But they did little damage. On December twenty-second, eighteen sixty-four, Sherman reached Savannah.

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One offered by Senator John Sherman, a Republican, was approved by Congress.

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As Sherman's army moved across South Carolina,it destroyed almost everything in sight.

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The Republicans had great difficulty choosing among Grant, Blaine and Sherman.

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Instead of surrendering to Sherman, the Confederate Armies would break up.

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Johnston said he had the power to surrender all the Confederate armies everywhere in the South he said he would do so if Sherman agreed on a political settlement.

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A third candidate was John Sherman, the Secretary of the Treasury.

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Sherman said he wanted to make the people of Georgia suffer.

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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act. And the McKinley Tariff.

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The western armies were led by General William Sherman.

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