Abraham Lincoln

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 Biography
Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville, Kentucky, February 12, 1809 - Washington D. C., April 15, 1865) )
Lawyer and American politician, sixteenth president of the United States States (1861-1865) and first
by the Republican Party.

As a strong opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican
Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.

During his tenure, he helped preserve the United States by the defeat of the secessionist Confederate
States of America in the American Civil War.
Introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in
1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.

Lincoln closely supervised the outcome of the war until it came to an end, in particular the selection of the
best generals.

Lincoln successfully mobilized public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches.

After the war, Lincoln established the reconstruction, trying to gather quickly the country through a
generous policy of reconciliation.

His assassination in 1865 was the first assassination in the United States.
Always evoked as the president who abolished slavery, Abraham Lincoln is one of the most admired figures in
American history; honesty, strength of spirit and the depth of his thought and his convictions, evident in his
writings and speeches, stand out among the virtues of a statesman whose performance was not without hesitation.

Abraham was brought up in a Baptist family, as both Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, his parents belonged to the Little
Mount Baptist Church
When Abraham Lincoln was eight years old, his family moved to Indiana.

 At age sixteen, Abraham was contracted by James Gentry to conduct a raft of genres to New Orleans. He and the
son of Gentry they traded downriver along the coast of sugar.
Finally they arrived in New Orleans; time after returning home, his father decided to move again. The ranch in
Indiana produced little milk fever and threatened their livestock. John Hanks lived in Illinois, from where he sent
news on those lands. And Thomas decided to go there. After a long journey, the group reached the banks of the
Sangamon River in the area near Springfield, Illinois, in 1829. They built their new home.
Denton Offutt, a man who took a liking to Abraham, hired him to his return from New Orleans
to take charge of a warehouse with mill in New Salem. And there was Abraham, in July 1831.
Lincoln already had twenty-two years old, and owned his person. They said he later.

He served as a captain in the Army during the Black Hawk War.

Lincoln had turbulent mood swings alternating between grandiosity and depression, which
greatly moderated after his marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln in 1842. From this union were born
four children, all boys. One of them died as a child before his father arrived at the White House.
Another son also died very young his father being president. And the smallest died six years
after the death of Abraham. The eldest son Robert Todd Lincoln lived up to adult and had
descendants.
At the beginning of his political career; He served four terms in the Illinois State Legislature. He was
elected Congressman (MP) to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress for the 7th
Congressional District of the State of Illinois for the period from March 4, 1847 to March 4, 1849. Due to
his opposition to US intervention in Mexico Lincoln had to resign to nominate for re-election, leaving the
vacancy for other candidates of his party in the midterm elections, which are held two years later, or
earlier, as you see, general. He had a successful law practice in Illinois both before and after his time in
the House of Representatives.
 Presidency
The objectives of his presidency were his party, the Republican, and that was
the great heir of the Whig party, which had fallen into disgrace. It consisted
that Henry Clay had called "American System," and that was summed up in
three points:
• A protectionist customs policy
• "Internal improvements" (public investments in infrastructures)
• inflationist banking policy.
Protectionism favored north, which voted overwhelmingly Republican, and harmed the south, a
stronghold of the Democrats. Northern industrial era, and by imposing high customs (mainly British)
foreign competition of manufactured goods was limited.

The north also took advantage customs revenue (until the War Between the States, the main source of
income of the federal government) to make "internal improvements," the South considered not benefit
him. So did inflationary banking.

To carry out its program, the "American System" that the union needed to be maintained. A
divided country would ruin that scheme. Why Lincoln always put binding to any other
consideration, including slavery.
During his presidency, Lincoln is recognized as having freed the slaves by the Emancipation Proclamation,
though this only freed in areas of the Confederacy not controlled by the Union. However, the proclamation
made the abolition of slavery in the rebellious states was an official war aim. This gave impetus to the
adoption of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, which abolished
slavery and established the federal civil rights enforcement. During the Civil War, Lincoln received the
powers that no previous president had exercised Congress; He managed funds without control of Congress
and suspended habeas corpus.
 Legacy lincoln

It is one of the historical figures who have achieved more love in America, a country that stands out
by deep political divisions that houses within it. But this man, whose assassination in a theater 150
years ago is commemorated this 2015. It was the man who ended the American Civil War and ended
(at least on paper) to slavery and the inferiority of the black man.

"Lincoln was a prolific writer and one of the presidents of history that most cards received,
resulting in thousands of personal documents and political telling the chronicle of what would
become the United States of America for one of the most important periods in American history,
"explains Dr. Daniel Stowell, director and editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln.