Who set the goal that america would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s?

It was President John F. Kennedy who set the goal that America would put a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, since this was during the Cold War, when the US was involved in a "Space Race" with the USSR. 

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South carolina was so angry about the election of lincoln that they seceded from the union on december 20, 1860. they attacked fort sumter later, on april 12, 1861.