John F Kennedy's Accomplishments

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There are many reasons why all the presidents are known for. There have has been many accomplishments that involved making our country great. There's have be so much many situations that occured in the United States, that the president had to put there mind together and accomplish it. Each presidents have a unique mind of viewing the United States, how they plan to take action that would change their country. Most president have the same ideas or a different way of thinking to improve the country, by making it better or worse, depends on how they take actions in their own hands. John F. Kennedy (JFK) is the 35th president of the United States, he was 43 years old, one of the youngest president and the first Roman Catholic …show more content…

He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln had delivered the Emancipation of Proclamation. The Emancipation of Proclamation was an order given by Abraham, freeing slaves in all portions of the United States and not under the Union control, the Union control is part of the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation reshaping the cause of the civil war from saving the Union to end slavery. The Union Army's first year and a half of battlefield defeats made it difficult to keep up morale and support strong for a reunification of the nation. And the Union victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, while by no means conclusive, was hopeful, giving Lincoln confidence to officially change the goals of the war. While working on a farm Lincoln have made extraordinary efforts of knowledge on the farm, splitting rails fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was the captain for Black Hawk War, Lincoln spent 8 years in the Illinois legislature and rode the circuit for many years. Abraham have lead over the Union victory in the American Civil War, which dominated his presidency, Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate who drives the outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, by well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was taken to the Petersen House across the street and laid in a coma for nine hours before dying the next morning. His body lay in state at the Capitol before a funeral train took him back to his final resting place in Springfield,