Abraham Lincoln's Accomplishments

It takes a strong willed person with self-ambition, creativity, and power amongst people earned in only the right of ways to help change someone's life, let alone help a change a country. Abraham Lincoln is known throughout the nation, not just because he was the 16th president so we must recall him but because he sparked change in his time. He rose from humble beginning and created himself as he grew to become someone great with great accomplishments. Having to had dealt with multiple deaths in his lifetime and a rough childhood, he rose above everything he had to go through, entered politics, became a great leader, and soon enough became President. In all of the stages in his life he fostered change in those around him and those after him.

The fact that his father had no drive of his own and was everything Lincoln did not want to be, didn't help. He worked a series of jobs in which his presence was always enjoyed. He has power with his words, when he talks everyone listened. A a few short months after his mother's passing, his father, Thomas married a women named Sarah Bush Johnston, who had three children. Lincoln quickly grew close to her. Although both were illiterate, she pushed for him to learn to read. Soon, he was walking miles to borrow books from his neighbors. When he was 22 years old he decided to separate from his family, moving to new Salem, Illinois making a living quickly becoming a store owner. It was around that time where he started growing in his social capabilities with public and becoming known in a greater amount. After the Black Hawk war he was elected as Illinois state legislature and it was then when he made multiple political connections. Abraham Lincoln appeared unable to lead the nation out of its dark dilemma at the time. But he possessed all the leadership qualities and abilities needed to save the

“He faced the greatest internal crisis of any U.S. president.” He faced an enormous charge; to reunite the United States and guide the country through war time. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised an army and decided to fight to save the Union from crashing. Despite all the pressure put on the war, an extensive amount of deaths, setbacks, un-qualified general's, assassination threats, and many more things, Lincoln did not change his pro-Union policy for four long years of Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation finally issued and signed Jan. 1, 1863 to free slaves from bondage was Lincoln's declaration of freedom for all slaves in the areas of the Confederacy not owned by the union. Abe was opposed to slavery and once said “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally” to express how he felt about it. Proclamation means an announcement. It freed around 4 million African-Americans held as slaves in the Southern states. It also changed the Civil War from a war for preservation into a war of liberation. But despite the victory, Lincoln was distressed over the loss of life and the division of families after as a result of the Civil War. Lincoln