Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln was the man of humble origins who dedicated his whole life in the service of the nation and its people. In 1860‚ Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States defeating Douglas‚ John Bell‚ and John C. Breckinridge along with Hannibal Hamlin as his running mate. As a president he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Lincoln’s greatest contribution is towards the anti-slavery movement
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was looked at as one of the greatest presidents in history. He went through a great deal of obstacles to fight for what he believed in. The accomplishments he brought to our country would have been even greater if he wasn’t assassinated. As a child he knew that he was destined for greatness and he wanted to achieve more than what his family had. Lincoln was a brave and determined leader and personally one of my favorite presidents
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Abraham Lincoln‚ one of America’s greatest presidents‚ earned this reputation because of the man that he was. He had many goals and visions for the country. He had outstanding leadership skills during the Civil War and was known as “Honest Abe.” But the main reason is because he maintained the Union. Abraham Lincoln is known today as America’s greatest president and is all over American history. He is in every history book and even has books solely about him. Children learn about him in school
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American think of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator who freed the slaves. He is hailed as the hero of black freedom who supported social equality of the races and who fought the American Civil War to free the slaves? Although Lincoln may have viewed slavery as evil‚ it is also true that he shared the belief that blacks could not be integrated into white society. The fact is Lincoln was hardly interested or committed to put an end to slavery. I will show you that Lincoln was not a friend
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Abraham Lincoln was born February 12‚ 1809 at sunrise. His birthplace was a one-room log cabin‚ which was sixteen feet long and eighteen feet wide. The tiny cabin had only one dimly-lit window and hard-packed earth for flooring. When Abraham was six years old he and his sister Sarah walked two miles to a log cabin schoolhouse where he learned to read‚ write‚ and do arithmetic. Abe liked writing best of all and practiced it wherever he went. He wrote with charcoal on the back of a wooden shovel and
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Abraham Lincoln On the morning of Sunday‚ Feb. 12‚ 1809‚ Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was conceived and lived his first years in a log cabin in Hardin County‚ Kentucky. Abe was the second child to be born with two siblings‚ an older sister who died at a fairly young age and a younger brother that died during infancy. In 1817‚ Abe’s family was forced to move from Kentucky to Perry County Indiana. Here the family found unoccupied land and settled
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Presidential Outline Assignment #3 eE I. Abraham Lincoln‚ #16‚ II. Born on February 12‚ 1809‚ in Hardin County‚ Kentucky III. In order to support his family‚ Lincoln had to be constantly working and this took a toll on his education. He had few periods enrolled in local schooling. He worked as a shopkeeper and a postmaster and eventually became involved in local politics as a supporter of the Whig Party‚ winning election to the Illinois state legislature in 1834. Lincoln taught himself law‚ passing the bar examination in 1836
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Abraham Lincoln Lawrence Bays Axia The University of Phoenix HIS/115 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president for the United States of America. He was considered on of the greatest presidents because of his fight and success in getting rid of slavery. Before Lincoln was president he was a self-thought lawyer from Illinois. Lincoln was president from March 1861 until his assassination by Johns Wilkes Booth in April 1865. Abraham Lincoln had many views on slavery and not
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Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United States of America‚ was the man who rose to the presidency and took the steps needed to end the situation of separation by making sure the South didn’t secede from the Union and continue to be a slave-owning population. An emancipator frees people from bondage or oppression‚ Lincoln’s main priority in his term in office was to re-unite the North and South‚ not to free the slaves. He believed that white people were superior to African-Americans and
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Early life Main article: Abraham Lincoln’s early life and career Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12‚ 1809‚ to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln‚ two uneducated farmers. Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm‚ in Nolin Creek‚ three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville‚ in southeast Hardin County‚ Kentucky (now part of LaRue County)‚ an area which‚ at that time‚ was considered the "frontier." The name Abraham was chosen to commemorate his grandfather
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