Abraham+Lincoln

=Abraham Lincoln= = "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." = = -Abraham Lincoln = = Background Information: = Sixteenth President of the United States of America

Born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky Died on April 15, 1865, in Washington, D.C.

Was a lawyer Grew up on the frontier where he would split rails and cut trees Nicknamed "Honest Abe" Was postmaster of New Salem appointed by President Andrew Jackson A member of the House of Representatives from Illinois Was a member of the Whig party, but then when it dissolved he was a member of the new republican in 1856 He continually ran for different political offices, and lost several times. Regardless, he continued to work in politics running for different offices and finally became President. Lincoln debated with Senator Stephan Douglas, over several issues in order to deter votes from him

He is known for his speech against Douglas known as the "House Divided Speech" given in 1858. His message discussed that the issue of slavery would not be settled unless the country was either slave holding or completely free. Then told Douglas that his popular sovereignty idea was detrimental to the country. One of his main quotes from his speech was "A house divided against itself can not stand."

He saw the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as the beginning of the Union therefore slavery is not constitutional. Although when running for

Presidency he did not really discuss his moral ideals.

Was assassinated in office by John Wilkes Booth

Married to Marry Todd =Presidency:= __Term:__ Began on March 4, 1861 Ended on April 15, 1865

__Political Party:__Whig, then part of the New Republican Party

__Cabinet:__ Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin, then Andrew Johnson Secretary of State: William H. Seward Secretary of War: Simon Cameron, then Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of Treasury: Salmon P. Chase, then William P. Fessenden, then Hugh McCulloch

__Issues During Presidency:__ -Civil War: the tension over slavery, and the debate over states and federal government rights between the Union and the South, resulted in war -Union had difficulty fighting at the beginning of the war due to the fact that Lincoln did not have the right Generals, until Grant, the soldiers were volunteers and were not trained, also marshalled the economy during the war to help with war efforts. -Gettysburg Address: 1863, Lincoln gave this address after the Battle at Gettysburg, trying to boost moral and let the soldiers know that their sacrifice would not be in vain -Emancipation Proclamation (1863): issues by President Lincoln that freed all slaves from the Southern states that were in rebellion from the Union. Without slaves it would put a dent in the South's economic resources and limit their army. Gave this speech after the Battle of Antedinum, and declared that this proclamation was constitutional because as Commander and Chief he deemed it a necessary war clause. - Homestead of Act 1862: individual who would have a family would receive a grant of land and if lived their for five years

__Impor____tant Points from Ina____ugural Addresses:__ __First Inaugural Address:__ "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." -Lincoln will not abolish slavery because he does not have the right to do so. -Will not start a war unless South strikes first

"If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this." -He discussed that if a group of people want to leave the nation all parties need to agree as a group. Also if the South did secede what is stopping another party within the South to secede from their new "nation".

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone 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." -Trying to steer clear of a war because with war it could potentially destroy the union -For a perfect union need to stay together, the Constitution is a contract that the states agreed too

-If union did break up he would not abide by Fugitive Slave Law -Moral point of view the rebellion cannot be justified, no nation in organic law declares that a state can leave the union, it is unconstitutional

__Second Inaugural Address:__ "While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to //saving // the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to //destroy // it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would //make // war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would //accept // war rather than let it perish, and the war came." -Lincoln discussed that he did not want the war to occur

"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully." -Both sides pray to God, and the war was taking a tole on Lincoln -Tone of the address was very melancholy

=Legacy:= Lincoln won the Civil War and saved the union. He was a man of integrity, and even to this day he is still considered one of the greatest presidents of this country.

Work Cited: Information: Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address (1861) Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address (1865) http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln

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