what was the contributions of abraham lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America and is still one of the most highly respected presidents of our country. He grew up with very little and he was no stranger to hard work. Abraham Lincoln never wavered from striving to better himself through reading just about anything he could get his hands on, to just simply being honest. Often times pitched as the “Great Emancipator” for his work on the Emancipation Proclamation, he took the first presidential step in the official ending of slavery. His ambition to abolish slavery and keep the union together led to the Civil War. Sadly enough, because of some of these things he fought for, they are also some of the reasons Lincoln became the first republican president …show more content…
So the Lincoln family moved in 1816 to an under developed region in the southwestern corner of Indiana. According to, The Youth in Indiana, Even though Abraham was only seven years old, he himself has said he “was quite large for his age”. His father quickly introduced him to the ax to start the clearing away of the vast terrain onto which they settled. Unless he was plowing or harvesting seasons he “was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument” splitting rails until the age of twenty three (16).
Thomas Lincoln soon realized that living in the back woods raising two children himself after Nancy death was next to impossible. He decided to take a trip back to Kentucky and find a wife and found his childhood friend Sally Bush Johnston who was a widow raising her three children, John, Sarah and Matilda. Thomas purposed marriage on the spot, took her to the court house, married her and took her and her children back to Indiana. Sally was shocked at the conditions in which Thomas, Abraham and Sarah were living in. Thomas didn’t exactly tell Sally the truth representing himself as an industrious and prosperous farmer. His children were filthy dirty, ill-used, and half naked, in the depth of winter. Sally made Abraham put down a floor, hang windows and doors in their one room cabin. She clothed them, brought beds, quilts,… From Lincoln-Douglas Debate, published by Haldeman-Julius Company, Girard, Kansas 1923 Page 44 "I have no purpose to produce political and social equality. I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes or of qualifying them to hold office or allowing them to intermarry with white people...I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry Negroes, even if there was no law to keep them from it...I will, to the very last, stand by the law of this state which forbids…Dispossession and penury were not uncommon. The Lincolns crossed the Ohio River and homesteaded near Little Pigeon Creek in Perry County, Indiana. Their family consisted of Thomas and Nancy, young Abraham, and his older sister Sarah. In a biographical sketch written in 1859, Lincoln recalled the scene: "We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods." Abraham was put to clearing timber so the land could…
So the Lincoln family moved in 1816 to an under developed region in the southwestern corner of Indiana. According to, The Youth in Indiana, Even though Abraham was only seven years old, he himself has said he “was quite large for his age”. His father quickly introduced him to the ax to start the clearing away of the vast terrain onto which they settled. Unless he was plowing or harvesting seasons he “was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument” splitting rails until the age of twenty three (16).
Thomas Lincoln soon realized that living in the back woods raising two children himself after Nancy death was next to impossible. He decided to take a trip back to Kentucky and find a wife and found his childhood friend Sally Bush Johnston who was a widow raising her three children, John, Sarah and Matilda. Thomas purposed marriage on the spot, took her to the court house, married her and took her and her children back to Indiana. Sally was shocked at the conditions in which Thomas, Abraham and Sarah were living in. Thomas didn’t exactly tell Sally the truth representing himself as an industrious and prosperous farmer. His children were filthy dirty, ill-used, and half naked, in the depth of winter. Sally made Abraham put down a floor, hang windows and doors in their one room cabin. She clothed them, brought beds, quilts,… From Lincoln-Douglas Debate, published by Haldeman-Julius Company, Girard, Kansas 1923 Page 44 "I have no purpose to produce political and social equality. I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes or of qualifying them to hold office or allowing them to intermarry with white people...I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry Negroes, even if there was no law to keep them from it...I will, to the very last, stand by the law of this state which forbids…Dispossession and penury were not uncommon. The Lincolns crossed the Ohio River and homesteaded near Little Pigeon Creek in Perry County, Indiana. Their family consisted of Thomas and Nancy, young Abraham, and his older sister Sarah. In a biographical sketch written in 1859, Lincoln recalled the scene: "We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods." Abraham was put to clearing timber so the land could…
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