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How Did Abraham Lincoln Cause The Civil War

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Steven Baynes History 110 Mrs. Litz Abraham Lincoln On February twelfth 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in a homey log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincolns father could be described as a strongly determined pioneer1, who was well respected to his peers. Lincolns mother had a harder time finding work in the community, as did many women at this time. Lincoln was the middle child with an older sister Sarah and a younger brother Thomas who died as an infant. The Lincoln family soon moved after Abrahams birth to Perry County, Indiana in 1817. A year after moving to Indiana Abrahams mother died of tremetol, she was only thirty-four years old. The loss of Abrahams mother led him to resent his father for the hard work that he placed upon him. Only a year after the down spiral of the Lincoln family, Lincolns …show more content…

There were class issues, political issues and yes, slavery issues that all contributed to the Civil War. President Lincoln provide over $2million for war supplies, call up 7500 volunteers to fight and suspended habeas corpus,10 all without approval by the Congress. Although slavery was not the major cause of the Civil War, Lincoln felt confident in the Union progress that he reshaped the war by authoring the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves.11 The freeing of all the slaves had nothing to do with winning the war, because we ended up winning two years later through attrition. After the victory the United States was reconstructing, in places under the Union military.12 Lincoln did not agree with this so he want the country to reunify with no punishment to either side, but the congress disagreed. Before Lincoln could reunify or try to reunify the country he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The assassination occurred on April fourteenth of 1865 at Ford’s theater in Washington

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