abe lincoln

The life of Abraham Lincoln illustrates what great character and leadership can do for a country. Lincoln refused to let the poverty and hardships of his childhood deprive him of a successful life. Even though he had less than one year of formal schooling, he gave himself an education, which more than prepared him for the nations highest position, the Presidency.

And since this ambitious young lawyer had a very strong desire to make a difference, he entered politics and finished eighth out of thirteen in a race for the Illinois House of Representatives in August 1832. Abraham believed the government should be a positive force with the purpose of serving the people. He thought in order for him to have a significant influence on the government, and to have the most impact, he must achieve a high position in the government. And that included the position of the presi

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His blockade of the southern ports weakened the south by stopping its income from trade and his immediate expansion of the Union Army gave the north a powerful battalion to combat the Confederacy. Finally, there was the Emancipation Proclamation on the first day of the year 1863. It connected all of eastern United States with California and allowed a speedy way of communicating across a country. It released all the slaves in the states that were still in rebellion. His determination and persistence in the cause of his nation earned him a place in the heart of Americans, as on of the greatest presidents of the United States. He managed to stop and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the people’s support to him and the Union. To the settlers were granted 65 hectares of public land by the Homestead Act, free of charge, beginning in 1862, enhancing the growth of the United States and bringing more people to create a thriving population. However, the newly elected President Lincoln decided that the original Union must be saved at all costs, even if it meant civil war. His humble background only made him more of a representation of the possibilities of the United States and increased his popularity with the people of the Unites States, driving toward a greater nation. He admitted that his reconstruction was not perfect, but convinced his people to accept it and work on it over letting their sister states leave and banishing the hope of a unified nation forever. He put the nation back together and did not punish the south as wanted by some. And in 1860, Lincoln's years of persistence, effort and hard work, finally, paid off when he was elected as the sixteenth President of the United States. The first federally controlled paper money was issued in 1861, establishing a secure standard of money, one not threatened by failure in any way. Some of his actions were controversial, such as suspension of habeas corpus (the right to protest unlawful imprisonment of a person and take it to court) for certain Confederate supporters who were too loud in their support, but it prevented unrest when unity was needed to fight the Confederacy.

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