Abraham Lincoln

Post #1) Abraham Lincoln was born on born on February 12, 1809 in the state of Kentucky. When he was eight years old, his family moved from Kentucky to Indiana when he was eight years old. Then when he was ten years old his mom died. He left his family when he was in his teens and moved to the state of Illinois. When he was in Illinois, he worked on a farm and was able to run a store by himself. Then he started to get into politics. He was a lawyer and got into the state legislature of Illinois. When he was in the state legislature of Illinois he said, “man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.”

Post #2) Abraham Lincoln decided that after he was done in the state legislature of Illinois that he would take a jab at running for President of the United States of America. He decided to run in 1860. He ran against a person by the name of Stephan Douglas. Stephen Dougles was a democrat and Abraham Lincoln ran as a republican. It was a very strong election session.There where a lot of debates between the two men. Abraham Lincoln won the election. He was sworn in as the 16th President of th United States of America in 1861. During his first inorgration he said, “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

Post#3) As soon as Abraham Lincoln became President, the Civil War was about to start. Before he said his inorgral address, the south succeeded when Eleven states left the U.S.A to become their own country, and it was called the Confederate States of America. The northern states became the Union States in 1861. Then on April 12, 1861 at 4:30am, the first shot of the civil war was fired at Fort Sumter, SC. For the Civil War the Northern States (The Union) had 23 states and the Southern States (Confederate States of America) had 23 states. During the Civil War, He was a huge influence for the union states and helped to decide what to do for when they fought the war and how to work the battles out. The big battles of the Civil War that happened during Abrahams’ Presidency were: First Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chanttanooga, The battles around Richmond, The Seige of Petersburg, and the Surrender of Appomattox. He also said his famous speech of the Gettysburg Adresss which he said when they where dedicating the Gettysburg National Battlefield. One part of the speech that grabbed my attention was when Abe Lincoln said these famous words,  “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He said this speech four months in November after the battle of Gettysburg had happened.

Post#4) During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 which declared the all the slaves in the Confederacy will be free. He was very inspirational with his writing of the Emancipation Proclamation and had a lot of help with the writing of it. His words that he wrote in the Emancipation Proclamation became famous around the world. A saying in the Emancipation Proclamation that think is very inspirational is, "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.” Congress then pass the 13^th Amendment, which then abolished slavery for all slaves. After the Civil War ended in April 9, 1865, Lincoln ran for another term for president and was re-elected president. Then on April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C when he was watching a play. He died the next day at sunrise at the Petersen House across the street from Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

Other Resources: http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540?page=1, http://www.fords.org/home/explore-lincoln/learn-story/biography-abraham-lincoln, http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln