Abraham Lincoln

Examples of Abraham Lincoln in the following topics:

• Abraham Lincoln's Family

  • 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.

• The Politics of Expansion

  • 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.

• The Sectional Crisis Deepens

  • 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.

• The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

  • 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

• Lincoln and Republican Victory in 1860

  • 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.

• Lincoln's Plan and Congress's Response

  • 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.
  • Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice President who took over the presidency after Lincoln's assassination, attempted to continue Lincoln's vision for Reconstruction.
  • A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln from 1865, during the Reconstruction era of the United States (1863–1877).
  • Abraham Lincoln stands, right, using a split rail to position the globe.

• Union Politics

  • 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.

• Emancipation

  • In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
  • President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers.
  • On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure because it was solely based upon Lincoln's war powers.

• Buchanan's Waiting Game

  • In the aftermath of the 1860 election, seven Deep South states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before Abraham Lincoln took office as president).
  • Paralyzed by negative public opinion and a hostile Congress, Buchanan made no further moves either to prepare for war or to avert it, leaving Lincoln to grapple with escalating tensions between the Confederacy and the United States.

• The End of the War

  • 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. " The caption reads (Johnson): Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closer than ever.
  • (Lincoln): A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended.