Mrs pam golding biography of abraham lincoln

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There I grew up.... Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinoisstatelegislatorduring the 1830s, and a one-term member of the UnitedStatesHouse of Representativesduring the 1840s.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave nationalvisibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost the Senate race in Illinois to his arch-rival, Stephen A.

Douglas. After working as a lawyer, Lincoln entered politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman and eventually as the 16th President of the United States. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. Indiana, in my eighth year.... While serving in Washington, Lincoln introduced a plan to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.

Further, Lincoln proclaimed a blockade against Southern ports on April 19, 1861. Events rapidly spiraled toward war when South Carolina demanded that federal soldiers evacuate its military installation at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The Emancipation Proclamation galvanized and reinvigorated Lincoln’s abolitionist supporters, transforming the war from an effort to preserve the Union to a higher moral cause.

Re-election

Despite continually rising casualty totals, public unrest elicited by the practice of conscription, and mounting criticism from Copperheads and the Northern press, Lincoln sustained his political base and won re-election in 1864—no small political feat.

Reconstruction

Even before Lincoln won re-election, he began planning his reconstruction policy to heal the nation’s wounds when the war ended.

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National Mourning and Burial

Lincoln’s body lay in state in the White House for dignitaries on April 18. At 4:30 a.m. Finally, the plan encouraged re-admitted southern states to enact plans to ensure the freedom of former slaves.

Unlike others in his administration and in Congress, Lincoln believed that a lenient approach would best help heal the nation’s wounds once the fighting ended.

The train’s route, which passed through hundreds of communities and seven states replicated, in reverse, Lincoln’s trip to Washington as the president-elect. He also voted to censure President James K. Polk for usurpation of powers regarding the Mexican-American War in 1848—a vote that later seemed inconsistent with some of Lincoln’s own actions during the American Civil War.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

After completing his term in Congress, Lincoln returned to Springfield to practice law in 1849.

While living in Springfield, Lincoln met Mary Todd, the daughter of a wealthy slave-holder from Lexington, Kentucky. Lincoln received little formal education during his youth, but his stepmother taught him how to read and encouraged him to learn on his own. The performance of Union armies in the Eastern Theater was inferior to that of the Confederate armies.

On December 8, 1863, Lincoln announced his plan for the reunification of the nation, known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Despite attempts to resolve sectional differences—most notably the Crittenden Compromise — Lincoln faced a constitutional and military crisis the day he took office. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.