Abraham+Lincoln+as+President

= = =Abraham Lincoln  = **Essential Questions: 1. What are some of his greatest accomplishments? 2. What are two of his speeches, and what were they about?

Born on the 12th of February, 1809 Abraham Lincoln grew up striving for knowledge. Unlike Lincoln’s father, his mother and stepmother encouraged him to continue to read and grow his understanding in all topics that caught his interest. ** ** Lincoln chose to live on his own in 1830. He got a job in New Salem as a store clerk. 1834 brought a victory for Lincoln; he would serve the first of his four two-year terms to the Illinois State Assembly.Eight years later, and now a lawyer, Lincoln married a women by the name of Mary Tod. They had four children together; Edward “Eddie”, William “Willie”, Thomas “Tad”, and Robert Todd. Robert Todd was the only to survive until adulthood. ** ** Against a divided Democratic party Lincoln easily won the 1860 presidential election, with only 40% of the popular vote. Now that he was president Lincoln assured the south he would not interfere with slavery. Not believing him South Carolina seceded along with 6 other southern states.

One month later Fort Sumter was fired upon by the south now known as the Confederate States of America. This was the start of the Civil War.Although this shook Lincoln he moved quickly to get things under control. But after all the Generals Lincoln assigned fail epically he began to study military tactics himself. Finally in 1864 Lincoln found Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln had faith in Grant and to show that he increased the size of the army and navy.

Although Lincoln couldn’t openly say that the goals of the North now included ending slavery he found a way to make it known. The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation was on July 22nd, 1862. After corrections, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863 due to the north’s slight victory at the Battle of Antietam also known as the bloodiest day in American history. He claimed it was "an act of justice as well as a fit and necessary war measure...".

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that any slave presiding in a southern slaves state that was in rebellion against the Union was now and forever free. Lincoln was very careful in his wording of this proclamation as to not upset the border-states.

One of Lincoln’s most famous speeches was the Gettysburg Address. He delivered this speech on November 19th, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech took place at the Nation Cemetery, and was to honor those who died on the Battle Field. Edward Everett, who delivered a speech before Lincoln, spoke for over two hours, and Lincoln made a greater impacting speech in about three minutes. The speech was about the soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. There were 50,000 men killed or wounded. The most popular part of his speech was the first sentence: “ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

April 14, 1865 brought the death of Abraham Lincoln. He was fatally shot while he watched a play at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Booth was an actor and Confederate sympathizer.

Famous Quotes From Abraham Lincoln...

"The only Falsehood in the statement is the the half of it has been told.This article does not begin to tell the wonderful things i have witnessed" This is what Lincoln said when he was shown an article."

"My paramount object is to save the union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." ** 

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