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Abraham Lincoln- the 16th President

Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, a legislator and most of all a challenger of slavery. He served as the sixteenth President of the United States. President Lincoln was a best military strategist and a statesman. He proved his leadership abilities in the time when the country most needed Unity. His address at Gettysburg is one of the best pieces of oratory in our history. In April of 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John booth who was a Confederate sympathizer.

Abraham Lincoln’s Political Career: for the first time in the year 1846, Lincoln won the election for Congress. He was a strong opponent of the U.S- Mexican war. For his anti-war stances, he was unable to get re-elected and returned to Springfield in 1849. He returned to national politics after the passage of Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854. After the passage of this act, he came in front of the voters and spoke against slavery, calling it a violation of the Declaration of Independence. After joining the Republican Party, he again ran for the Senate seat in the year 1858. Because of his speeches against slavery, he raised to new heights and in the years of 1860s, he witnessed extreme popularity. In the same years, the republican choose Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the Presidency.

Abraham Lincoln as President: Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the great emancipator. With his leadership skills, he remained successful in uniting the country after the civil war. He is famous for his anti-slavery speeches and ultimately freeing the United States from slavery. During his Presidency, he made all efforts to make the Republican Party strong. Holzer argues that the Emancipation Proclamation Act is the most famous work of President Abraham Lincoln ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"q9xU1lm9","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Holzer)","plainCitation":"(Holzer)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":266,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/LGCCFM68"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/LGCCFM68"],"itemData":{"id":266,"type":"book","title":"Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President","publisher":"Simon and Schuster","ISBN":"0-7432-2466-3","author":[{"family":"Holzer","given":"Harold"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2004"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Holzer). He issued this Act in 1863, two years before his murder.

Issues in the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln: During the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the only crisis the country faced was the Slavery issue. At this point in the United States’ history, it was wide emancipation that the country might break into two parts, the one who support slavery and the others who are against institutionalizing slavery. After his Gettysburg address, which was supposed to be a furious speech, he emphasized working together to achieve the ideals of the declaration of independence.

Why is he famous for? Abraham Lincoln is famous for many reasons some of them are

His self-motivated efforts which rose him to the level of American Presidency.

The setbacks he faced in his personal life when he lost his three sons.

His role as the President in uniting the country during the civil war.

Passing of the Emancipation Proclamation Act, after which slavery was considered illegal.

Works Cited:

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Holzer, Harold. Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Simon and Schuster, 2004.