April 12, 2013 Abraham Lincoln Essay Final Draft Abraham Lincoln is one of the most celebrated figures in American history. Lincoln was well aware of his short standards as a leader. He didn’t just discuss his role as a president. He discussed it as also being a commander-in-chief at the end of the Civil War. (“LINCOLN, Abraham”) Also he was a representative who is from Illinois and born in Hardin County on February 12, 1809. In 1816 he attended a log-cabin school. When Lincoln became the 16th…
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November 2014 Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief President Abraham Lincoln was not exactly prepared to be commander in chief in the civil war. There were times where you can clearly see President Lincoln is inexperienced, but then you can see him being a true real commander in chief. When time comes President Lincoln will step up to the challenge and be our leader. As you all know the union wins the civil war all thanks to one of our greatest presidents. Abraham Lincoln did have some positive…
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election “Lincoln was the cause of the Civil War”. Most people in the 1860s thought Lincoln was the whole cause of the Civil War. But as u know Lincoln was as president and was elected in 1860 but not many people didn't like him. He was making people in the north and the south very mad because of slavery and war and this just made the whole situation worse until it got to the point where the south states started to succeed. His election was one of the causes of the Civil War and that's why many people…
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course of the Civil War? It is impossible to know for sure, because of the spotty records from that time period. The records indicate that there were about 250 thousand deaths on the Confederate side, and 350 thousand on the Union side. This would make a total of upwards of 600,000 deaths. However, modern historians indicate that the real number could be between 750 and 850 thousand fatalities. 2-Which states seceded to the Confederacy and when? Through the course of the Civil War, eleven southern…
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President Abraham Lincoln flirtation with African American civil rights, John Wilkes Booth wanting to bring back gory to a fallen Confederate Army, and lastly John Wilkes Booth deep hate toward the President of the United States because of his assault of the deep South. Individually, each of these points hold little weight within each other and for most historian’s each of these points would be wrist away as they hold no weight in history, but together these three points created a six-year storm…
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Abraham Lincoln is considered one of the most influential politicians and certainly one of the best writers in American politics. Nonetheless, his carefully crafted language in works like The Gettysburg Address, his First and Second Inaugural Addresses, the Emancipation Proclamation, and his many public and private letters has been the target of both deferential praise and harsh criticism. Mark E. Neely Jr., Lincoln scholar and Pulitzer Prize winning historian, is the author of The Last Best Hope…
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election of 1860 was when Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States. He was the first Republican to win the presidency and beat the whole community of Democrats, that had been the other candidates running against him. After the voting had been finalized Lincoln had gotten 40 percent of the votes, which although it does not seem like a very high amount, because of the circumstances surrounding the running, it was enough for him to win. Before Lincoln ran to be president, he…
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Abraham Lincoln Questions Who was he, what do we know about him as a key political figure in American politics?: Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught Illinois lawyer and legislator with a reputation as an eloquent opponent of slavery. During the Union on the brink of victory, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by the Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth in April 1865,; his untimely death made him a martyr to the cause of liberty and Union. Over the years Lincoln's mythic stature has only grown…
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think? the white Americans were outraged because they believed that the president was going to save the union. instead president lincoln freed the slaves but what they did not know was he was freeing the slaves to weaken the south, to save the union. in the article it states "many white Americans were outraged, complaining bitterly that it changed the goal of the civil war from saving the union to freeing the slaves".many people didnt accept the change of missions. this started rebellions. the commander…
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Why did the South Fight? Imagine you are a 13 year old boy during 1860. Your father wakes you up at dawn with a gun slung across his shoulder. He says you must come with some friends, but what you don’t know is that you are really going off to war. Boys thirteen and older were able to fight in the Civil War, about 65,00 Texans served in the military for the South. But the real question is why did Texas fight in the Civil War. Most Texans fought in the Civil War because they loved Texas and their…
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