Abraham Lincoln’s Major

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Lincoln: Presidency

“In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.”

A Time Of ChangeAs President of the United States

Abraham tried to get northern Democrates to join his union idea about slavery. Honest Abe later had the allies and support to issue the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which declared to free the slaves in the Confederacy.

“Lincoln's victory in that election thus changed the racial future of the United States. It also agitated

Southern-sympathizer and Negrophobe John Wilkes Booth, who began to conspire first to abduct Lincoln and later to kill him. On Apr. 14,

1865, five days after Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Lincoln attended

a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington. There Booth entered

the presidential box and shot Lincoln. The next morning at 7:22 Lincoln died”

Abraham Lincoln's Assasination

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Citations● abrahamlincoln.ameslab.gov.2march2011.web.http://SC94ameslab.gov/tour/alincoln.html

● abrahamlincoln.whitehouse.gov.1march2011.web.www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln