America's greatest hero, Abraham Lincoln, was born to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham’s parents were the normal farmers, carpenters and loving caretakers. As life continued, his parents decided to relocate and move to Indiana when Abram was the age 7, a few years later his mother had died from milk poisoning Lincoln …show more content…
Before his assassination in 1865, Lincoln is known as one of America’s greatest heroes, savior of the union and emancipator of the slaves. Abraham established the United States Department of Agriculture on May 15 of 1862, this establishment also known as “people department” consisted of developing farming, agriculture, forestry, and food. Until this day, it is still a big impact becoming a variety of topics such as health and safety, data, animals, climate solutions, etc. Not only did Lincoln create a USDA establishment he proposed a speech that had a huge impact on the states involved, known as The Gettysburg Address of 1865. The Gettysburg address stated “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.” He delivered this speech in 1863 on November 19 to dedicate the soldiers who were killed in war, there is also a statement made by Lincoln inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... " Additionally Lincoln brought forward the emancipation proclamation on New Year's day in 1863 that had reshaped the civil war, to …show more content…
According to my research Abraham understood that bank credit was a way to a healthy economy, Salmon P. Chase and Lincoln himself had borrowed from other governments and citizens to create the country's first general income tax and printed paper money also known as “Greenbacks”. He declared that “will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money." In 1861 Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of the first federal income tax imposing 3 percent tax on incomes over $800. Due to inflation on minimum taxable incomes congress repealed Lincoln’s tax law in 1871, but passing of the 16th Amendment of 1909 that set the federal income tax system that is used today. Abraham Lincoln a man who made great betterment in his life known as one of America's greatest heroes. He achieved a humble rising background to the country's highest office with people claiming his presidency was his most outstanding success. Lincoln refused responsibility to the union and the Civil War that teared a deep wound in the nation, he simply was trying to repair the damage done, with all that followed by the rough period of time he managed to reshape America's