who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky., the son of Nancy Hanks (1784–1818) and Thomas Lincoln (1778–1851), pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by his parents to nearby Knob Creek and at eight to Spencer Co., Ind. The following year his mother died. In 1819 his father married Sarah Bush Johnston (1788–1869), a kindly widow, who soon gained the boy's affection.

Lincoln grew up a tall, gangling youth, who could hold his own in physical contests and also showed great intellectual promise, although he had little formal education. After moving with his family to Macon Co., Ill., in 1831, he struck out on his own, taking a cargo to New Orleans, La., on a flatboat. He then returned to Illinois and settled in New Salem, a short-lived community on the Sangamon River, where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to physical combat, and was elected captain of his company in the Black Hawk War (1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he began to study law. That he gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of his romance with Ann Rutledge (1816–35), a local young woman whom he knew briefly before her untimely death, is unsubstantiated.

Illinois Politician and Lawyer
Defeated in 1832 in a race for the state legislature, Lincoln was elected on the Whig ticket two years later and served in the lower house from 1834 to 1841. He quickly emerged as one of the leaders of the party and was one of the authors of the removal of the capital to Springfield, where he settled in 1837. After his admission to the bar (1836), he entered into successive partnerships with John T. Stuart (1807–85), Stephen T. Logan (1800–80), and William Herndon (1818–91), and soon won recognition as an effective and resourceful attorney.

In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd (1818–82), the daughter of a prominent Kentucky banker, and despite her somewhat difficult disposition, the marriage seems to have been reasonably successful. The Lincolns had four children, only one of whom reached adulthood.

His birth in a slave state notwithstanding, Lincoln had long opposed slavery. In the legislature he voted against resolutions favorable to the “peculiar institution” and in 1837 was one of two members who signed a protest against it. Elected to Congress in 1846, he attracted attention because of his outspoken criticism of the war with Mexico and formulated a plan for gradual emancipation in the District of Columbia. He was not an abolitionist, however. Conceding the right of the states to manage their own affairs, he merely sought to prevent the spread of human bondage.

National Recognition
Disappointed in a quest for federal office at the end of his one term in Congress (1847–49), Lincoln returned to Springfield to pursue his profession. In 1854, however, because of his alarm at Senator Stephen A. Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act, he became politically active again. Clearly setting forth his opposition to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, he argued that the measure was wrong because slavery was wrong and that Congress should keep the territories free for actual settlers (as opposed to those who traveled there mainly to vote for or against slavery). The following year he ran for the U.S. Senate, but seeing that he could not win, he yielded to Lyman Trumbull, a Democrat who opposed Douglas's bill. He campaigned for the newly founded Republican party in 1856, and in 1858 he became its senatorial candidate against Douglas. In a speech to the party's state convention that year he warned that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” and predicted the eventual triumph of freedom. Meeting Douglas in a series of debates, he challenged his opponent in effect to explain how he could reconcile his principles of popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision (see Dred Scott Case). In his reply, Douglas reaffirmed his belief in the practical ability of settlers to keep slavery out of the territories despite the Supreme Court's denial of their right to do so. Although Lincoln lost the election to Douglas, the debates won him national recognition.

Answer 2

You must be from outside the U.S. He was president from 1861 to 1865, during the Civil War (there was nothing civil about it, and it's also known as The War Between the States, or if you're from the South, the War of Northern Aggression). He is hailed as a savior, but in reality he didn't care that much about the slavery issue. He once said that if he could hold the Union together and continue slavery, he would do so.

Lincoln was born in Kentucky in a log cabin, moved to Indiana as a child, and his family finally settled in Illinois. He served in the French and Indian War, became a lawyer, and was eventually nominated for president. He was known for being a rather homespun president, but also suffered from depression. His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was a Kentuckian and often accused of being a Southern sympathizer. She spent money lavishly, and is believed to have been somewhat mentally ill, but Lincoln stood by her to the end.

Shortly after the war ended, Lincoln attended Ford's Theater in Washington to see the play "Our American Cousin." An actor and Southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, managed to get past the guard, who had temporarily abandoned his post, and shoot Lincoln. Booth jumped from the balcony where the President and Mrs. Lincoln had been seated, breaking his leg. He was immediately recognized, since he had played at the theater himself. He took off toward Virginia, and was caught hiding in a barn, where he was shot and killed. His leg had been treated by a Dr. Mudd, who was then hanged as an accomplice, even though he may have known nothing about the assassination at the time. Several others who knew Booth, and who often met with him in a local inn, were also tried as co-conspirators.

There are theories, as there usually are, that Booth did not act alone. Even Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, has been mentioned as a possible co-conspirator. There were sympathizers in Canada whom he also met with, and shortly before he assassinated Lincoln, he started up a bank account and deposited $800.00 in it, an incredible amount in those days. Some say it was seed money given to him by the Canadians to plan the assassination.

Many more assassinations were also planned for that night. Some of the intended assassins lost their nerve, and some whom the president had invited with him to the theater changed plans at the last minute. Secretary of State Seward was assaulted at his home, but the gun misfired, and the attempt was foiled.

Ironically, the treatment of the South would probably have been much better if Lincoln had survived. Lincoln was not in favor of treating the South harshly, but in welcoming them back into the Union. Instead, they had to undergo the Reconstruction, where every state was under military occupation for several years.

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America from 1861 to 1865, he was born on February 12, 1809 and he died on April 15,1865, and he can be seen on the penny of the United States

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky., the son of Nancy Hanks (1784–1818) and Thomas Lincoln (1778–1851), pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by his parents to nearby Knob Creek and at eight to Spencer Co., Ind. The following year his mother died. In 1819 his father married Sarah Bush Johnston (1788–1869), a kindly widow, who soon gained the boy's affection.
the 16th president of united states of america

Answer 5

the most famous A. Lincoln was the 16th prez of the U.S.A., but there is a lesser known A. Lincoln who ran a used car dealership in Fresno back in the 60's. No relation.

Answer 6

The 16th president of the United States. He was president during the American civil war.

Answer 7

he was thee 16th president of the UNITED STATES, he built the republican party into an organization and he issued the emancipation proclamation which freed the slaves in the Confederacy

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "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 have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."

Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.

The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

Answer 9

16th president of US

Answer 10

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