Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12th 1809. Lincoln was a lawyer and many other jobs before being a president. Lincoln’s nickname was Honest Abe because he was always honest during the time he was a lawyer. After that, Lincoln lost his mom and his sister because of poisoned milk.
Lincoln moved to Illinois and that’s when he first saw slavery. He thought it was cruel so he joined the republican party to become President. He eventually became the President of the U.S. but people in the south part of the U.S. hated him because he wanted to ban slavery.
In the south, slavery was one of the people’s main way to make a living, so without slavery, people of the south were very angry at Lincoln. Because of that, they wanted to separate
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Generals in the north were getting sacked by Lincoln because they were making small and simple mistakes which caused them to lose a few battles.
After the war, Lincoln’s plans were to reconstruct things that were destroyed during the war in the north and south of the U.S. and the slaves were no longer saves, they were called freedmen and this law is the 13th amendment. In the northern part of the U.S. an organization was created called the freedman’s bureau. This organization was created to help the freedman by making sure they had civil rights and help them read and write. But people in the south had a big problem because after the war, all of their money was useless because the Confederates had their own type of money.
Abraham Lincoln was very lenient towards the south because he wanted the north and south to reunite and to be one country again. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s Vice President, wanted to give the south an opportunity to form their own governments and deciding their own rules as long as they would abolish slavery, but the south found new ways to still treat the freedmen unfairly. For instance, they can’t own properties and this was called black codes which was made by the southern