Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to a low class family in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was self-educated man who taught himself law. He became the 16th president of the United States in 1861, but before that he was a lawyer, politician, and a congressman. Lincoln worked in the state legislature for 4 years and was a successful lawyer in Illinois. He was a member of the Whig party in Illinois. After he served one term in the House of Representatives, he lost interest in politics and went back to practice law. After that came the Kansas-Nebraska act which was the reason for Lincoln’s come back to politics because of his opposition to it. He was one of the leaders of the Republican Party in Illinois. As a president, he led the union
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The movement was led by Fredrick Douglas and some other supporters to free the slaves. In the northern U.S, the movement gained strength. Those abolitionists believed that slavery was a sin and that slaveholding was incompetent. The anti-slavery activists in the northern of United States started helping the slaves of south who ran away from their owners and escaped the southern plantation through underground railroads. Which in fact has nothing to do with the actual meaning of underground railroads. It was given this name because the fugitive slaves had to go through their escape in secret. So, they used to call the places where they were going to stop as a stations, and the people who led them to the northern part as conductors. The debate over slavery in America grow a conflict about its future, restriction, and amplification. Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state after the debate over the right of the federal government to keep slavery within bounds. On the other hand, Maine and all lands on southern borders of Missouri were admitted as free lands. In spite of the fact that this Missouri settlement was drafted to keep a balance between free and slave states, it was able to ease the tension between the southern and northern only
The movement was led by Fredrick Douglas and some other supporters to free the slaves. In the northern U.S, the movement gained strength. Those abolitionists believed that slavery was a sin and that slaveholding was incompetent. The anti-slavery activists in the northern of United States started helping the slaves of south who ran away from their owners and escaped the southern plantation through underground railroads. Which in fact has nothing to do with the actual meaning of underground railroads. It was given this name because the fugitive slaves had to go through their escape in secret. So, they used to call the places where they were going to stop as a stations, and the people who led them to the northern part as conductors. The debate over slavery in America grow a conflict about its future, restriction, and amplification. Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state after the debate over the right of the federal government to keep slavery within bounds. On the other hand, Maine and all lands on southern borders of Missouri were admitted as free lands. In spite of the fact that this Missouri settlement was drafted to keep a balance between free and slave states, it was able to ease the tension between the southern and northern only