16+Abraham+Lincoln

__**Abraham Lincoln**__

//**Background Information:**//
 * Born in February 12, 1809 Hardin County, Kentucky
 * Second oldest in the family
 * His political party is Republican
 * Was married to Mary Todd
 * Had four Children

//**Early Life:**// Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in backwoods Hardin Kentucky. He grew up on newly broken pioneer farms of the frontier. He had almost no formal schooling except the scattered weeks of school attendance in Kentucky and Indiana that he attended to for less than a year; but he taught himself, reading and rereading a small stock of books. In his young adulthood, he moved with his family to Illinois, where he worked as a boatman, store clerk, surveyor, militia soldier, and ultimately a lawyer. He was elected to the Illinois Legislature, and to the United States Congress from Illinois.


 * //Republican Party://** Lincoln turned to the only large organization available for his use, the Republican party. With some rare but important exceptions, Republicans received the bulk of the civilian appointments from the cabinet to the local post offices. Lincoln tried throughout the war to keep the Republican party together and never consistently favored one faction in the party over another.

 //**Emancipation Proclamation :**// Congress moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act. The goal was to weaken the rebellion, which was led and controlled by slave owners. This did not abolish the legal institution of slavery, but it shows Lincoln had the support of Congress in liberating the slaves owned by rebels. Lincoln implemented the new law by his "Emancipation Proclamation." It was anounced on September 22 and put in effect January 1, 1863, freed slaves in territories not under Union control. As Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all of them in Confederate hands were freed which were over a million.
 * //Cival War://** Was fought between the slave states which were known as the Confederacy and the nonslave states which were known as the United States. Lincoln was the commander and cheif for the United States. The war lasted for 4 years and after that President Lincoln proposed an amendment that would free the slaves. The 13th amendment was proposed on January 31, 1865 and was then signed on December 6, 1865.

//**Conclusion: **//Abraham Lincoln had created one of strongest republican party organizations. He then signed the Emanipation Proclamation and later on signed an amendment that freed the slaves. He was knowned as "Honest Abe" because he knew what to do and kept his promises. Later on he was assasinated in a theater in Washington D.C. and could not serve his second term. **﻿** __[] __ __[] __ __[] __ __[] __ __[] __ __[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ __﻿__
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