Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and is remembered for all the good and wonderful things he did while in presidency. His legacy has lived on to this day in age and went down in history as one of the most memorable Presidents we have ever had. Lincoln had a roughly normal childhood in which he lived with both of his parents on a ranch. Lincoln was born in a one bedroom logged-cabin on February 12th, 1809 in Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky.1 Lincoln had spent most of his early years from the age of seven to twenty-one sort of lending a helping hand to his family on the ranch when he wasn't reading or writing. He then soon lost his mother in 1818 due to a brief illness just a few
Since he was against the spread of slavery, Lincoln had very little support from the slaveholding states in the South. More of the North was all for President Lincoln to come into office and make change in which the North helped Lincoln win the presidency in 1860. The Emancipation Proclamation is what Lincoln’s presidency is most known for. Not to mention the thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which he pushed through with congress to permanently abolish slavery.9 Also, preserving the union while strengthening the federal government. Lastly he also modernized the economy along with many other great accomplishments that a president could do at the time. With his Proclamation and activist ways to end slavery he declared slaves forever free within the confederacy. Those in the south resented Lincoln because they felt that having slaves was a right they possessed in America. Lincoln finally signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.10 Which freed most of the slaves in some of the southern states. Which Lincoln’s presidency was most known for and also most controversial at the time since America mostly depended on slavery. Although the Proclamation freed slaves many southern states still had and traded slaves since they didn't want to give up slavery. Many southerners who believed slavery was a right, hated Abraham Lincoln because
Booth was an actor in the play Lincoln and his wife were attending, he also was a confederate spy from Maryland. Booth snuck in and shot Lincoln from behind in the head. Booth first had a plan to kidnap the President but then Lincoln granted voting rights to black and Booth then decided to assassinate. Lincoln's guards left him unguarded in which Booth took the chance and shot the President point black in the back of the head. Booth escaped and was on the run for about 12 days but soon was found on a farm. He wouldn't surrender so Sergeant Boston Corbett had killed him on April 26th.11 He was shot and killed from behind at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. John thought he was helping out the south by killing Lincoln in a sort of revenge for ending slavery. Little did he know that it would just backfire. Lincoln became the first U.S President to be assassinated while serving their term of