Abraham Lincoln Research Paper

Alexe Morgan

Josh Dobson History 131.20

11/15/17

Abraham Lincoln Biography Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. Born February 12th, 1809, (we share a birthday) was born in the state of Kentucky and lived in a log cabin. Living only fifty six short years Lincoln accomplished many things that the United States still recognize today. Most everyone has heard of President Lincoln, however, not everyone knows of the life he lived. Yes everyone knows he was killed by John Wilkes Booth in Fords theater. But not everyone knows of the loss of his young son Willie Lincoln or of his early childhood rising. Most people do not know anything about his wife Mary Todd or how Lincoln abolished slavery. Lincoln was a very smart

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation stated that all individuals who were held as slaves in rebellious states "henceforward shall be free." However, Lincoln knows it would be difficult to free the slaves of the North because they did not control any states in rebellion and the proclamation didn’t apply to Border States, Tennessee or any Louisiana parishes. Throughout all of Lincoln's life he had said “ that if slavery was not wrong, nothing was wrong.” As he began to study law at a young age, he saw that the constitution protected slavery in the states that it already existed. After Lincoln figured out a loophole his decision was made, he brought together his cabinet and told them there was nothing they could do or say but they could give him suggestions on timing minor implications. Together they decided to wait until a victory arose, and not issue it in July as Lincoln had intended so that it would not look like an act of desperation of their reverses. That coming September Antietam came, this was the victory that allowed him to issue the emancipation without looking like an act of desperation. The emancipation freed 3.1 million of the nations 4 million

Little did he know that this speech would be one of the worlds most famous speeches even given. Lincoln gave this speech in the dedication of the soldiers, National Cemetery in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. A cemetery for the Union Soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The central statement of the Gettysburg address was that the United States had been born in the declaration if Independents, in the thought that all men were created equal. He states that this war was about bringing the words of the declaration into reality. He tried to bring back the ideas of those eighty seven years before in Philadelphia, but without slavery. Lincoln's gift was poetry, as if every word he spoke that day was strategically placed, there is a rhythm to the entire two minute speech and he used words such as “four score and seven years ago instead of saying 87 years ago, these words stick to become a lasting look of what the republic actually