Free Essays on Abraham Lincoln

  1. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States (1861-1865). He is considered by many to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States. During his presidency, Lincoln was able to guide the country through the Civil War while maintaining the...

  2. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. Abraham Lincoln was a tall thin bearded man. He became the 16th president of the United States of America. He grew up in a log cabin and freed the slaves. He had many siblings and children and died in 1865. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809...

  3. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America, his term lasting from 1860 to 1865. Lincoln came from humble upbringings, to becoming the most powerful man in America, Thomas (2008) stated that "Honest Abe, as he was most commonly called, is known today as a...

  4. Major life Events of Abraham Lincoln

    Book #1 Major life Events of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln in the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. Thomas was a strong and determined pioneer who found...

  5. Did Abraham Lincoln Cause the Civil War?

    Did Abraham Lincoln’s sudden death make him a martyr and a hero to the cause of liberty and democracy? The history that surrounds the assassination of the President suggest he died fighting for the idea of abolishing slavery, to enable all men to be treated the same regardless of race. According to the...

  6. abraham lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished...

  7. Abraham Lincoln in the Eyes of Machiavelli

    Abraham Lincoln: A Loved Leader Abraham Lincoln is considered my many as the greatest president of American history. Freeing the slaves, winning the Civil War, and saving the Union are among his many great achievements. Without him, the world would be completely different then what it is today, for...

  8. Abraham Lincoln the “Great Emancipator”

    Historians rank Abraham Lincoln the “Great Emancipator”, stating him the greatest American president. The primary reasons they rank him that is since; he was the only American president to endure a full-scale civil war. And he won, despite the difficulty in doing so on many levels. He freed a large number...

  9. lincoln

    The "great Emancipator  the tenacious the humble the human Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president to the United States of America one of the most distinguished presidents that saved the country and gave new birth to freedom. He was endowed with splendid wisdom, illustrious dignity, consciousness and...

  10. lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a great life because he was that great man who led the country as the sixteenth wonderful president into where we are right now. He was the one who ended slavery and wrote the Gettysburg Address. If it wasn’t for Abe, we wouldn’t be where we are right now. Abraham...

  11. raham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The battle between Freedom and Slavery

     Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The battle between Freedom and Slavery It was during the Civil War era that both Frederick Douglass and Lincoln fought to destroy a country that was filled with turmoil of slavery. It was then that some of the best speeches came to be. Both of these...

  12. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1859

    he Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1859 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate. At the time, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were campaigning for their...

  13. Abe Lincoln

    and found the biography named The Real Lincoln, by Thomas J. DiLorenz. I’ve always had a fascination with Abraham Lincoln. His personal qualities and love for others are characteristics that every human being should want to obtain. I have always viewed Lincoln as being a kind hearted man who wanted...

  14. Marry Ann Todd Lincoln

    Mary Ann Todd Lincoln Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865. In early life Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born in Lexington, Kentucky she was the daughter of Robert smith Todd and Eliza parker...

  15. Abe Lincoln

     ABE LINCOLN Microsoft IT Academy: Word Ima Smart Cookie 14 March 2014 Abraham Lincoln: A TECHNOLOGY LEADER OF HIS TIME If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he would fight just as hard to keep his BlackBerry as President Barack Obama...

  16. Abraham. lincoln

    A Life in Brief When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union...

  17. Abe Lincoln

    Tristan Brophy 3/5/2014 English 11 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a very big man; he was six foot four inches tall and weighed one hundred and eighty pounds. He had black hair and a dark complexion. He had a black beard. He had gray eyes with black eyebrows. His physical description...

  18. Abraham Lincoln's Quotes

    Garrett Lokka Professor Cann ENG 300 February 10, 2009 5 Abraham Lincoln Quotes "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so...

  19. Abe Lincoln Analysis

    ABSTRACT Through the strong use of logos and pathos, Lincoln wanted to assert his belief that the government cannot continue to exist or function if it stays divided on the issue of slavery. Lincoln's “House Divided” Speech is broken up into three parts: the growing problem of a nation torn...

  20. Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for Union and Emancipation

    President Abraham Lincoln was faced with a monumental challenge during his two terms as Commander-in-chief of the United States: reuniting the shattered halves of the Union. This was his sole purpose in fighting the Civil War—nothing more, nothing less. However, Lincoln was flexible enough to accommodate...

  21. Lincolns Gettysburg Address

    also known as “the War Between the States,” began in the early 1860’s primarily over the issue of slavery. The initial cause of the war was due to Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the Presidential Election of 1860. The start of the war officially occurred when the state of South Carolina seceded from the...

  22. Abe Lincoln George Bush

    to hold their country together through the toughest times. Two great examples of this figure is our 16th president Abraham Lincoln, and our current one, George W. bush. Abe Lincoln is viewed as one of the greatest of all time, while bush has gathered a negative outlook. But I am here to look at...

  23. Abraham Lincoln as President

    Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ' April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American...

  24. Lincoln on Leadership

    Lincoln on Leadership is one of the most powerful books on leadership that I have read. The most interesting part to me was that Lincoln was a true leader as President and not just an individual who sat back and let others do all the necessary work while he made the pubic appearances. In my studies of...

  25. Abraham Lincoln Paper

    Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, only to be assassinated as the war was coming to an end.[9] Before becoming the first Republican elected to the...

  26. Abraham Lincoln's Thoughts in Dred vs. Scott Case Outline

    1. In the case of Dred vs. Scott, Abraham Lincoln accused the court of attempting to nationalize slavery by his actions when aligning himself with the Republican Party, and the stance they took to appease voters and gain support. a. The Republican Party denounced the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred...

  27. The Unknown Story of the Lincoln Assassination

    The Unknown Story of the Lincoln Assassination Aubrey Tallon Per. 7 Almost everyone knows the story of the assassination of the United State’s sixteenth President Abraham Lincoln. The story of a president shot from behind while enjoying a play five days after General Lee of the Confederate...

  28. Age of Lincoln Book Review

    The Age of Lincoln: Orville Vernon Burton Book Review The history of the United States of America is full of war, peace, family, God, hope, depression, and prosperity, but no story or event shaped this country more than the great civil war. Orville Vernon Burton’s book, The Age of Lincoln, tells the...

  29. Lincoln Douglas

    The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and the incumbent Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate. At the time, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas...

  30. Reconstruction Memoir of Abraham Lincoln

    My name is Abraham Lincoln. I was born on February 12th, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. I have accomplished plenty in life, but my most memorable achievement was when I became the sixteenth president of the United States of America in 1861 and was even privileged enough to get re-elected in 1864....

  31. Abraham Linclon

    When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws...

  32. Killing Lincoln

    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly Bill O’Reilly believes that every American should know something about Lincoln’s presidency; what transpired during its course, and how it ended and that’s his reasons for writing this informational book. O’Reilly...

  33. President Abraham Lincoln

    US President Abraham Lincoln wrote, that conservativism is "adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried." In the US, social conservatives emphasize traditional views of social units such as the family, church, or locale. Social conservatives would typically define family in terms of local...

  34. The Leader of the Free World

    soldiers alike, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that tore to core of the American spirit, ideology and what we as Americans today believe as patriotism. Giving the speech on the very battlefield where siblings, family members and fellow citizens slaughtered each other, President Lincoln sought to delve...

  35. biography

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, from the backwoods of Hodgenville Kentucky, rose to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States. During his attempt to keep the Union in the Civil War, he gained more power and authority than any president before him. A excellent politician, Lincoln...

  36. Adad

    first federal Thanksgiving holiday? The first federal Thanksgiving holiday was set on the last Thursday of November in the year 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln to kind’ve relate to the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod which occurred on November 21, 1620. It was later changed to the fourth Thursday...

  37. The Emancipation Proclamation

    & Company: Studyspace. www.wwnorton.com\studyspace (accessed, January 31, 2011). The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and January 1, 1863. The declaration highlighted freedom of all slaves within any state that did not submit to Union. It...

  38. Machiavelli and Politics Today

    sustained accounts of how Abraham Lincoln in particular can be fruitfully understood in the light of Machiavelli's writings. In this article, I argue that Machiavelli's political theory provides us with a framework that can be used to illuminate the words and deeds of Lincoln, one of our most important...

  39. Inauguration Speech of Obama

    of the United States. Obama has a bundle of issues he needs to address in his presidency, but so did the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Both of these presidents had lengthy inaugural addresses, but both definitely addressed their goals and priorities for their country. Throughout...

  40. English Paper 1

    which you'll we will tell you more about go into more detail about later. ... Bad Things Abraham Lincoln Did · Lincoln was not as liberal as he is remebered: On September 18th, 1858, Lincoln was quoted saying, " I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in...

  41. Inauguration Essay

    refers to himself to the Abraham Lincoln of our time. President Lincoln had become president in a rough time and he was called upon to make the United States a better place. It is not surprising that he calls himself the Abraham Lincoln of our time because just like Lincoln, people are deeply depending...

  42. Civil War: A War To End Slavery

    In 1861, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union. That was also when South Carolina troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston. Lincoln then asked for volunteers to build a union army. The same year, eleven southern states seceded from the union. At the Battle of Bull Run, Americans...

  43. Major Engagements in the Civil War

    fort and held it under siege. Abraham Lincoln ordered new supplies to be sent and when they arrived the confederates attacked at 4.30 AM, the next afternoon the fort was surrendered April 1861 Four more states join the confederacy after the battle at fort Sumter Lincoln calls for more troops and Virginia...

  44. The Main Causes of the Civil War

    people dead. Here are the 3 main causes I think lead to the civil war, Social differences, growth of the abolition movement, and the election of Abraham Lincoln. 1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South. With the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton became very profitable...

  45. Assasination Vacation

    Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation is an interesting book following Sarah Vowell while she follows the stories of famous assassinations such as Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. Sarah Vowel’s purpose is to allow a better understanding of both sides by shedding new light on the assassins, and gave new...

  46. Fugitive Slave Act

    slavery. Best seller at the time and had a huge impact on the way northerners viewed slavery. It helped further the cause of abolition and even Abraham Lincoln recognized that the book led up to the outbreak of the war. Bleeding Kansas- The Kansas –Nebraska Act was passed allowing Kansas and Nebraska...

  47. ASH HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead

    Review the powers and responsibilities which the Constitution grants to the president. Then explain how presidents from, George Washington through Abraham Lincoln, have wielded and expanded those powers. How did the role of the president change from 1789 to 1865? Which presidents were most responsible for...

  48. Mount Rushmore

    the Entablature. The Entablature was to be a brief history of the US, symbolized by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, intended to carve the Entablature in an area shaped like the Louisiana Purchase. In 1934, due...

  49. The Outspoken Man Against Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln was born into a poor famer family in Hardin County, Kentucky. Although he hadn't been educated since he had to his family, he became a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States house of representatives, and a candidate for election to the Senate though unsuccessful...

  50. Agejhejw

    "Lincoln," contrary to the insinuation the title makes, is not necessarily a biographical film so much as it is a historical analysis of two of the most important events in the history of the United States — the passage of the 13th Amendment and the end of the Civil War. The movie does not focus on the...

  51. The Benefits of Mastering Communication Skills

    There are so few people who have mastered the skill of communication, for example, Abraham Lincoln was a master of communication. He communicated with the people of the union. Thence President Lincoln said “Abraham Lincoln, June 26, 1857 [The black person is] as much entitled to…the right to life, liberty...

  52. hjvbh

    In 1858, Abraham Lincoln stated, "I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." A Careful examination of this quote and the circumstances surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation reveals that Lincoln was more concerned...

  53. Houston

    Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president South Carolina secedes from the Union 1861 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas secede Jefferson Davis becomes president of the Confederate States of America Lincoln delivers first inaugural address South...

  54. Lincoln's Importance

    Who was Abraham Lincoln, the public and the private man? Just what is it about this former president that makes him such a compelling and intriguing figure to so many, even today? With us to shed some light on Lincoln is David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Lincoln biographer...

  55. The Mexican War

    by military force, which started the war with Mexico. The American army marched into the Rio Grande, which just so happened to be Mexican land. Lincoln was aware of this, and Polk did everything in his power to persuade others that the land actually belonged to America. One key point of Lincoln's...

  56. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    "animal" began attacking any boat that drew near. This scared all the world's nations and the United States decided that they would send out the Abraham Lincoln to defeat the "animal," and once again bring peace to all the seas. For the expedition the best men in the oceanic fields of study were invited...

  57. dbq reconstruction

    the Compromise of 1850. English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President ... Summary...

  58. HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal Government

    President Jackson's proclamation regarding nullification, December 10, 1832 c. The Kentucky resolution – Alien and sedition acts d. Abraham Lincoln: Inaugural address, March 4, 1861 e. Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the...

  59. Decleration

    Declaration of Independence affected Abraham Lincoln’s speech about slavery. It inspired the women to fight to be equal to men which caused the Women’s Rights Movement. The Declaration of Independence affected Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. In 1854 Abraham Lincoln spoke out and against the slavery...

  60. Greek Influence on Western Culture

    Doric style integrated into their design. A well-known example of the Doric order is the Lincoln Memorial. Henry Bacon, a New York architect, modeled the building in the style of a Greek temple. (Abraham Lincoln Online) The classic Greek design features thirty-six, forty-four foot columns in the Doric...