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Abraham Lincoln
Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was the son of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. As a young boy he had a passion for reading even though his parents were illiterate. At an early age, his family visited New Orleans. Here is where Lincoln became aware of the slave trade. In 1834, he
was elected to the Illinois state legislature. After four terms as a
representative in the Illinois house, he became the leader of the
Whig Party. In 1846 he finally won a seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives and that’s when his political career really began.
It took years for Lincoln to climb his way up to become a president,
but finally in March of 1861, he was sworn into office and became
the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln was inaugurated and a month later
the Civil War began when the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter. One
reason the war began was because of Lincoln’s ambition to abolish
slavery. During July of 1862, Congress passed the Second
Confiscation Act to aid Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the
fight against slavery. Soon after that, Lincoln passed the
Thirteenth Amendment that permanently abolished slavery. On March 4,
1865, Lincoln gave his second inaugural address, in which he stated,
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather
than let the nation survive.” |
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