Abraham Lincoln's Accomplishments

Even decades after his presidency, the hard work and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln are still remembered today. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. He grew up with two siblings, Thomas Lincoln Jr., and Sarah Lincoln Grigsby. Lincoln received very little formal education during his childhood, but he learned by borrowing books from his neighbors and reading them. Lincoln was a self-taught Law Student and passed the Bar Examination in 1836. He worked as a lawyer and worked at the state capital of Springfield, Illinois. He then met Mary Todd, who would soon be his wife, and they had four kids together. Lincoln first entered the political field when he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives Election in 1846 and

One of the many ways Lincoln impacted the Civil War was by working hard to preserve the Union, specifically by preventing the uprising of the Southern states by serving as the Commander-In-Chief and leading the Union Army. One example proving Lincoln’s competency in serving as the Commander-In-Chief is as follows, “President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, to suppress the rebellion (The Civil War: The Senate’s Story).” When Lincoln heard the information regarding an uprising of Confederate Soldiers marching toward the North, he issued a proclamation that allowed troops to go toward the Confederate States and battle against their armies. Lincoln was responsible for directing the army to victory against the South and utilizing strategic tactics. The major theme of Lincoln’s strategic tactics was to fight the enemy and not waste time with endless maneuvers and sieging to control areas. Lincoln’s focus on capturing soldiers rather than trying to capture land helped to accomplish Lincoln’s main goal: preserving the Union. The war ended in 1865, with the Confederate Army being forced to surrender. One of the major battles which led to the end of the war was the attack at the Appomattox Court House. The Confederates attacked the Union Army first, so Lincoln’s army was forced to fight back. The article “Appomattox Court

Many Republicans were abolitionists who argued against slavery and, on the contrary, most Democratic Party members were in the Southern States so they fought to keep slavery legal. As Lincoln’s primary goal as a Republican was to preserve the Union and help free slaves, the Republican Party opposed the slave states and southern areas. While the Democratic Party thought that the Republican Party controlled the government and was abusing its powers (for context, many of the Democratic Party members were from the South, so when they heard about the Republicans protecting enslaved people and guaranteeing them civil rights, they were enraged), the Republican Party utilized the time in office during Lincoln’s presidency to protect enslaved people and guarantee them civil rights once they were freed (The Great Switch). One important step to strengthen the Republican Party was passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise (the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-state slave at the same time ), created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska), and allowed popular sovereignty (establishing a government based on the consent of the people). On one hand, passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act also caused a violent rebellion called the “Bleeding Kansas”, where many pro-slavery and anti-slavery