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Abraham Lincoln's Political Career

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Who was the 16th president of the United States? Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, but sadly he got assassinated while in office. Lincoln was born in 1809 and died in 1865, from a gunshot wound. Abraham had three kids from his wife Mary Todd, but only one Robert Todd Lincoln survived to adulthood. Abraham Lincoln is an influential person because of his great personality, his outstanding political career, and his many accomplishments during his presidency.
Mr. Lincoln had a very interesting life, and he accomplished many things during it. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12,1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. Mr. Lincoln’s mother died on October 5, 1818 of Tremetol at the age of 39. Abraham Lincoln …show more content…

Later Abraham Lincoln became engaged to Mary Ann Todd for the first time in December of 1840 when he was thirty-one, but he broke off his engagement to her in January of the following year. Shortly after he started regretting it and became depressed (he suffered from depression most of his life). He proposed again the following year and he and Mary Ann Todd got married on November 4, 1842. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln had four children. Only one of those four survived to adulthood. HIs name was Robert Todd Lincoln. During the winter of 1862 both of his sons, Willie and Tad both became ill with bilious fever. Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States of America in 1860. During his presidency Abraham Lincoln kept the United States together during the Civil War and he also helped with the …show more content…

The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the 13th Amendment, it freed all the slaves in the Confederate states. The war focus changed because of the Emancipation Proclamation. Up until September 1862 the focus of the Civil War had been to preserve the Union. After the Emancipation Proclamation the aim of the war was to free the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation immediately affected three million slaves, changing their status from “slave” to “free”. Although Lincoln did not free all slaves in the Proclamation because he did not want to anger border states that maintained slaves but were still on the union's side. If the Emancipation Proclamation would have declared all slaves free the border states may have gone over to the confederate side. After the Proclamation slaves in captivity knew that if they escaped they would automatically be declared free by the law. The Proclamation worked out in the Union's favor because by the end of the Civil War one-hundred eighty-six thousand African American men had served in the Union Army. The president's executive war powers were shown when the Emancipation Proclamation was put into practice and that is why is was a very important part of Abraham Lincoln's

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