Who Is Abraham Lincoln's To Blame For The Presidency?

President Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, who served from March 1861, to his untimely death in April 1865. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. He was born to Nancy and Tom Lincoln. He had one sister, Sarah, who was more commonly known as Sally. The family had a very successful farm in Kentucky, but as the years went by, the Lincoln family discovered the law did nothing to protect them and their family’s farm from poachers. Tom had no choice but to move the family to Perry County, Indiana, when Abe was seven.
The land where they decided to settle, was very unpopulated, perhaps because of the difficult Earth. It was very lumpy and rocky, and therefore, very hard to farm. While Abe, his mother and …show more content…
The debates, made people either love him or hate him, since he mentions that the states could not stand divided, and must choose slavery, or no slavery. The debates made Lincoln a prominent figure in the United States politics. His anti-slavery stands made him extremely unpopular, especially in the South, where they were dependent on slavery. But, he was nominated for the Presidency in 1860.
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency without the support of a single southern state. He won 40% of the vote, not nearly enough if it was between two people, but it was between four, and the other three candidates did not get the majority of the vote. So, Lincoln won the Election of 1860, which launched the United States into a Civil War.
His presidency was so hectic, it’s not worth it going into much detail about it. But he wanted to get rid of slavery. So, on January 1, 1863, three years into the Civil War, and his term as president, he made the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation immediately freed all of the slaves in the South, and gradually freed the slaves in the Border states. This was the act that many people will remember him