Abraham Lincoln Research Paper

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. He was raised in a farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. During his childhood Abraham was in the period of slavery, but the Lincoln family did not own any slaves, not only because they couldn’t afford it, but also his father Thomas did not approve of it. Later in 1816 the Lincoln family had to move to Indiana, near the Ohio River. Soon enough in 1818 Abraham’s mother, Nancy Lincoln, died of milk sickness. After the mother died, Thomas found a new wife named Sarah Bush Johnston. A few years later, the life in Indiana wasn’t as expected and the family had to move to Macon County, Illinois (Abraham Lincoln/Biography.com Editors- Childhood).

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Lincoln believed that having slavery was a bad choice, and so he returned to politics where he had a series of speeches where Lincoln he spoke against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and also against Douglas(Abraham Lincoln/Biography.com Editors-Politics). In 1954, Lincoln was elected state legislature, but he didn’t accept the offer. He wanted to run for senator against Douglas, but he had to withdraw from the race. The Whig party, which he was a member of, became divided and some became the Know-Nothing Party, Abraham decided to join the Republican Party. Then, after Lincoln was ready, he ran against Douglas for the senate seat in 1858. During that convention, Lincoln gave a speech in which he said “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved- I do not expect the house to fall- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”

Because Douglas had an advantage of already being Senator, Lincoln believed that with a debate over slavery, there was a possibility that people would vote for him by knowing him better. They had seven encounters of debates on this subject, and it was called the Lincoln- Douglas debate of 1858. All the effort that Lincoln put into the debates was not enough, because in the end Douglas won the Senate

Although he didn’t have much popularity, the Republican Party still pressured him to at least try. Then in 1960 he was invited to speak at Copper Union in New York City. The speech that he made in New York became so popular and exciting that was all over the newspapers. Soon enough his life was going to change when he was elected as the Republican presidential candidate. Lincoln stayed at home with his wife Mary while Republican leaders went across the United States making speeches and campaigning for Lincoln. Other candidates running for the presidency were Stephen A. Douglas for the Democratic Party, John C. Breckinridge for the southern Democratic Party, John Bell was nominated by leaders of the border state. Lincoln won all the Northern states, and it was enough to get Electoral College points, and win the election. As soon as Lincoln arrived in Washington D.C. on March 4, 1961 he took the oath of office of the President of the United States. When Lincoln gave is inaugural address in the Capitol building, he wanted to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution and the