Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln was born in Kentucky, USA, where his father worked as a carpenter. He has lost his mother at an early age, then her father married again. But Lincoln and his sister had loved her
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Early in his career, Lincoln was elected to the parliament for the Illinois region in 1834. Then re-elected in 1838 and 1840. At that time, In 1846, Lincoln was elected to Congress. However, its membership was not renewed because he proposed legislation to end slavery in the District of Columbia. Disappointed, he re-activate his firm. He stopped his political activities for some time, but then he is better known by the public as an honest lawyer.

Lincoln could not stop for too long from the political world. In 1854, the issue of slavery made him jump back into politics. Taampaknya he had to compete with Stephen Douglas, who tried to subdue the South Americans who supported slavery, while the Northern region were opposed. Lincoln did not expect that half of this country to maintain the practice of slavery as opposed to half of his fellow countrymen. He thought it could not be made up of half the nation half slave instead. However, Lincoln was hit in the first round against Douglas, the U.S. Senate seats.

Shortly after Lincoln was elected President, Southern withdraw from the federation. On April 12, 1861, the South attacked the North area in the city of Fort Sunter. Civil War or the 'war between the states of the federation' has begun.

In November 1863, in the battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered a speech, which is remembered throughout history. He said "... was born a new nation, founded on liberty that upholds the recognition that all men are created equal." The words of Lincoln at Gettysburg gives two principles of freedom and equality - which the founding of the United States.

Lincoln died in a way that unexpected. While we were watching a theater with his wife, he was shot by a fellow named John Wilkes Booth. Pick her death, when peace has come for America. Maybe it was the culmination of events that have occurred as casualties of the end of slavery in America. After his death, Lincoln was known as a great man, and the ideals that have been upheld to be maintained by all Americans.