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Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency

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April 8, 1809 one of the future presidents was born, Abraham Lincoln, he was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky and was born to be an honorable leader. Lincoln was the first republican president of the United states and also the sixteenth president , he didn’t have any more than to years of standard schooling and was originally going to be a lawyer. Lincoln also worked as a grocery clerk where he took flatbreads down to the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and that is where he witnessed slavery firsthand. During Lincoln’s first quarter civil war started the April of 1861-1865. “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” Lincoln warned the south with this speech. The Union won the war by defeating the south on the field of battle, but Lincolns conduct of foreign policy and the work of northern diplomats in Europe played an important role.
Lincoln stood out with his criticism about the the Mexican- American war (1846-1848) and moderate opposition to slavery cost him renomination. William Seward was the favorite Republican Party nomination for presidency. Seward was most likely to to win all the votes in New York because it was his home city. People in Illinois were all most likely to go to Lincoln because that was where he was from and after three ballots were put in he won.
The famous four way election was full of Republicans that supported Lincoln’s decisions and that is why he won all of the votes and won the election it 1860. It was a very awkward election because Lincoln wasn’t even on...

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...m Lincoln had 4 children and a wife named Mary Todd Lincoln. Lincoln was buried in Springfield, Illinois and the day he died was April 15, 1865. On the Lincoln Memorial his words are engraved of the Second Inaugural Address: “With malice toward none;with charity for all: with firmness in the right, let us strive on to the finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…”

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