Examples of Abraham Lincoln in the following topics:
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- The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
- Abraham Lincoln was one of the leading figures behind the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
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- By 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected president, 16 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas, and a third of the nation's income came from manufacturing.
- In 1860, Republicans and their presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln were speaking hesitantly on slavery, but they were much clearer on economic policy.
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- On April 14, 1865, as
President Abraham Lincoln sat in a box at Ford’s Theatre with his wife Mary and
two other theatergoers, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate
sympathizer, shot the president in the back of the head.
- Mary and her
son Robert Lincoln sat with the president through the night.
- President Lincoln
died the following morning.
- Robert Lincoln, who had served on Ulysses S.
- Discuss the experiences of Mary Todd and Robert Lincoln in the aftermath of President Lincoln's death
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- The war was opposed by Whigs in the US (including Congressman Abraham Lincoln) who considered it a European-style war of conquest and imperialism.
- The concept of Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, was primarily used by Democrats to support the expansion plans of the Polk Administration, and the idea of expansion was also supported by the Whigs like Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln who wanted to deepen the economy.
- The belief in an American mission to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, as expounded by Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson, continues to have an influence on American political ideology.
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- By
the election of 1860, these political camps were firmly aligned with Northern and Southern interests, with Southern states whipping up public
support for state conventions to vote on secession if Abraham Lincoln and the
Republicans won the presidency.
- Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican president of the United States following a period of increased sectional conflict among and within existing American political parties.
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- The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped Lincoln rise to national
prominence and secure the Republican presidential nomination in the election of
1860.
- The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a
series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for
Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas.
- Lincoln, who had served as the only Whig representative from Illinois in
the U.S.
- Lincoln's
vehement opposition to the expansion of slavery in the territories did not mean
that he supported emancipation or social equality among races.
- Evaluate how the Lincoln-Douglas debates shaped Lincoln’s political career and the election of 1860
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- In 1860, these issues
exploded when the Democratic Party officially splintered into Northern and
Southern factions, and, in the face of a divided and dispirited opposition, the
Republican Party secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the
White House with very little support from the South.
- Lincoln
won in the Electoral College with less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide,
leading contemporaries to cite the split in the Democratic Party as a
contributing factor to Lincoln's victory.
- Like Lincoln in the North, Southern
Democrat Breckinridge won no electoral votes outside of the South.
- Although
Lincoln and his advisors dismissed Southern alarm over the possibility of
Republican victory, many observers recognized that Lincoln's election could
result in disunion.
- In the four slave states that did not secede (Missouri, Kentucky,
Maryland, and Delaware), Lincoln came in third or fourth.
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- Prior to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln attempted to abstain from the debate over slavery, arguing that he had no constitutional authority to intervene.
- Lincoln faced strong opposition from Copperhead Democrats, who demanded an immediate peace settlement with the Confederacy.
- Moderate Republicans accepted Lincoln's plan for gradual, compensated emancipation, which was put into effect in the District of Columbia.
- When none of the states returned to the Union by that date, Lincoln honored his proclamation, and the order immediately took effect.
- The Copperhead Democrats strongly opposed emancipation and pressured Lincoln to make peace with the Confederacy.
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- From 1863 until his death, President Abraham Lincoln took a moderate position on Reconstruction of the South and proposed plans to bring the South back into the Union as quickly and easily as possible.
- During the American Civil War in December 1863, Abraham Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the "10 Percent Plan."
- Congress reacted sharply to this proclamation of Lincoln's plan.
- Lincoln later pocket vetoed this new bill.
- Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice president who took over the presidency after Lincoln's assassination, attempted to continue Lincoln's vision for Reconstruction.
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- Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan, thinking it too lenient toward the Southern states.
- Booth killed Lincoln three days later.
- Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected as Lincoln's vice president in 1864, became president.
- A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The 'Rail Splitter' At Work Repairing the Union."
- (Lincoln): "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended!"