#16 Abraham Lincoln
Year of Presidency: 1861-1865
Party: Republican
Birthplace: Kentucky
Born: February 12th, 1809
Died: April 15th, 1865
Known by his friends as "Old Abe", President Abraham Lincoln immediately addressed the issue of the states secession. He was willing to use force to hold the union together. Confederate batteries fired on the forces at Fort Sumter, previously set up by President James Buchanan. At Fort Sumter's surrender, Lincoln called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. At the time, four more slave states had joined the Confederacy, but Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri remained in the Union. The Civil War had finally begun. As President, Lincoln turned the Republican Party into a formidable force as well as rallied the northern Democrats to the Union's aid. on January 2st, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Lincoln won his re-election and the Union military triumphed over the Confederacy - bringing an end to the war. One Good Friday, April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, a man who assumed he was helping the South. On the contrary, Booth's actions did nothing but further the tension between the North and the South.
" A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it,... or advocated will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South."
Party: Republican
Birthplace: Kentucky
Born: February 12th, 1809
Died: April 15th, 1865
Known by his friends as "Old Abe", President Abraham Lincoln immediately addressed the issue of the states secession. He was willing to use force to hold the union together. Confederate batteries fired on the forces at Fort Sumter, previously set up by President James Buchanan. At Fort Sumter's surrender, Lincoln called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. At the time, four more slave states had joined the Confederacy, but Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri remained in the Union. The Civil War had finally begun. As President, Lincoln turned the Republican Party into a formidable force as well as rallied the northern Democrats to the Union's aid. on January 2st, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Lincoln won his re-election and the Union military triumphed over the Confederacy - bringing an end to the war. One Good Friday, April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, a man who assumed he was helping the South. On the contrary, Booth's actions did nothing but further the tension between the North and the South.
" A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it,... or advocated will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South."