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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham was born into a log cabin and his family was not all that rich. Throughout his childhood, his sister Sarah always encouraged him to challenge himself and also encouraged him to start reading and to learn more about the world. This was difficult for him because his family moved very often when he was a young boy and teenager. After his family moved to Illinois when he was 21, Lincoln did odd jobs to get some income until he took a flat boat down to New Orleans and met Todd Stuart. Todd Stuart was an experienced lawyer and took Lincoln under his arm and taught Lincoln how to be a lawyer and even gave him some law books to study. Eventually in 1836, Lincoln received …show more content…

Lincoln ran three times for the Illinois General Assembly and won twice but he did not run a fourth time so he could be able to run for the U.S. Senate. In the Illinois legislature, he served with Ninian Wirt Edwards, who was the son of a former governor of Illinois. Edwards’ wife was the former Elizabeth Todd of Lexington, Kentucky. When her younger sister, Mary, came from Lexington, Lincoln said, "Mary could make a bishop forget his prayers." Lincoln and Mary liked each other very much but unfortunately they separated from each other around December of 1840. More than a year later, a friend brought them back together, and they were married on November 4, 1842. In 1846, Lincoln was elected into the U.S. House of Representatives. There, he gave his famous “Spot” speech which changed the house’s view on Lincoln drastically. He did not run for reelection in Congress because he wanted to spend more time practicing law and to focus more on supporting his growing family of four …show more content…

He grew up with nine siblings on a farm in Maryland, which used slaves as their source of manual labor. His father was a well-known actor, John W. Booth decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and made his first performance when he was seventeen and then joined a Shakespearian acting company in Richmond, Virginia. Since he grew up on a farm with slaves, Booth was a die-hard Southerner. Booth hated anti-slavery and therefore he hated Abraham Lincoln because of Lincoln’s views on slavery. When Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and the Anti- Slavery Republican Party started to rise in the Northern States, Booth got so angry he said this to his sister, “So help me holy God! My soul, life, and possessions are for the South.” After 1860, Booth’s career as an actor took off well thought the war. One of the plays he was in was called “The Marble Heart” at Ford’s Theater, which on November 9, 1863, Abraham Lincoln was watching from the presidential booth. Later, when Lincoln was making his second inaugural speech in 1865, Booth and a couple of his friends were with him standing in the crowd. As soon as Lincoln called for limited Negro Suffrage, Booth muttered to his companions, "That means nigger citizenship. That is the last speech he will ever make." After that quote he tried to get one of them to kill the president then but failed in doing so. Five days prior to Lincoln’s assassination, Robert E. Lee

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He was also upset that President Lincoln got rid of slavery. Booth wasn’t the only one who knew that Lincoln’s death was near. He told his companion David Herold, the plan as well. Booth told Herold his horrific plan on the night of Lincoln’s last speech, on April 11, 1865. Booth got his hands on a letter that said President Lincoln would be

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Afterwards, he enlisted as a volunteer during the Black Hawk War. Abraham ended his tour as Captain of his company. He began studies on his own to become a lawyer after returning. Lincoln was successful in his second campaign and won election to the state legislature running as a Whig. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1836 and moved to Springfield, Illinois to practice law.

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Northerners, who were celebrating the defeat of the Confederate army, wanted a speech from Lincoln. However, Lincoln was “in no mood to speak” (89). In the meantime, John Wilkes Booth, is now furious over the south’s defeat. “It crushes Booth to think that the South has lost. He shuts the idea out of his mind.

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In hindsight, this seems the only way America’s worst moment could end. After some 600,000 American men had died of wounds, or grossly unsanitary medical practice, Lincoln gave his second inaugural address, the famous “charity for all” speech, on March 4, 1865, one month before his death. There is a photograph of him giving this speech, which also shows John Wilkes Booth standing above and behind him, on a balcony. Lincoln ended his speech with these words: “With malice toward none; with charity for all;…let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.”

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Leading up to his actions as president and leading the North through the Civil War, Lincoln encountered many obstacles and boundaries which molded his political stance. ] The Dred Scott case led to Lincoln’s first massive political stances which helped him influence his peers within the party and nationwide. This case allowed him to increase his standing within the nation to where his name was common place in politics. This grew even more as he was nominated by other Republicans in Illinois to run against Douglas. After winning the popular vote within this election yet losing the election, his speeches garnered more and more respect and allowed him to tour the United States.

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After being elected again he leads the U.S into the battle of Gettysburg which was a huge turnaround for the Union, and basically summed up and ended the war, with the Union on top. Many just remember Lincoln for his successful times in the Civil War, but towering over most in height and being successful, being at 6”4 and very successful in his young life before the war. Even though he was born into a rural poor family, he found a way to get to school and grow up to be one of the most memorable presidents. Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and grew up with an average education as pointed out above. At the age of 9 years old he lost his mother Nancy who died of an untreatable illness called Milk disease.

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His education would be self-taught, and he would spend 8 years as a lawyer until running for Senate in 1858; ultimately he lost to Stephen A. Douglas, but both gained a reputation nationally for their debates. 72 years after George Washington’s first inauguration, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States, taking charge of a country on the brink of war divided by North vs South. In Lincoln’s inaugural address, he warns that: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.

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(Swanson pg.9) He could not stand another Union victory over the Confederacy. Mr. Lincoln had sat by the first and last president of the Confederate State of America. (John was willing to throw away fame, wealth for a promising future for the cause of his Confederacy).(Swanson pg.10) Booth’s eyes lit up when he heard that the president would be coming to Ford’s theater.

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