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  • The Best President in American History - Abraham Lincoln

    The Best President in American History - Abraham Lincoln

    What defines a great President and what do we mean when we say someone is “the greatest”? Firstly a great President must be viewed as person who has achieved success in the office they hold. That includes effective implementation of policies which are clearly expressed prior to election and that are in the interests of the people who elected them. This is the very foundation of Democracy within the United States and was defined by

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Adlai Ewing Stevenson once said “our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free." Abraham Lincoln is the epitome of strength and success. Abraham Lincoln is, to the highest degree, recognized all over the entire world. He has had quite a mark on world history. Abraham Lincoln is one of the world’s most

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Monika
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln When people sit back and reminisce about the United States being one of the most prominent nations, they generally do not think that without one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States, there could be chaos and uncivilized conditions. Without this president, our great nation could have been divided into two, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. Slavery, one of the most terrible forms

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Before being able to evaluate Lincoln as a president and a war leader you need to evaluate him and understand him as a person. This gives you a greater insight into his psyche and helps you to infer the reasoning behind the courses of action he decided to take. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, on his father’s large but “Barren” farm near Hogdenville Kenucky. Growing up on his father’s

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln's effectiveness as president of the United States was so great that in all these years, and those before his time, no president has ever come close to equaling his achievements. Lincoln is known as a humble, honest man whose presidency irrevocably altered our society. He took office in a time of turmoil for our growing nation. During his administration he fought and won the bloodiest war in our history. Lincoln also passed through

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Artur
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation which had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery. When Abraham was 7, the family moved to southern Indiana. Abraham had gone to

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln's address embodies the true civic virtues of what a Union represents. He encapsulates an air of dignity as he incorporates the words of George Washington in which "religion and morality" along with knowledge are indispensable supporters to political prosperity. Union, according to Lincoln, surpasses the obvious, rather than just sheltering the fundamental laws ingrained within the Constitution, its final authority rests with God. It is the moral laws of God which supersede all natural

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Monika
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln On the stormy morning of Sunday, February 12, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas, gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather. In 1811 the Lincolns moved to a farm on Knob Creek which was also near Hodgenville. In 1811 or 1812, Abraham's younger brother, Thomas, died in infancy. Abraham spent a short amount

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents were both born in Virginia. his mother, who died when he was ten years old, of a family of the name of Hanks. His father. Who moved from Kentucky to Indiana when he was eight years old. He said “It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Bred
  • Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln

    Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln

    Remembering a Deceased American Hero, As He Remembered Others “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to this proposition that all men are created equal.” On the eve of a great national tragedy, the assassination of our 16th national President, Abraham Lincoln, we choose to honor him, by recalling his memory and legacy through a dedication speech given two years ago

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was committed to ending slavery as well as preserving the Union. In his first year in office, President Abraham Lincoln had stubbornly rejected the idea of abolishing slavery. But by 1862 he recognized that the best path to preserving the Union was by freeing the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation played a central role in achieving this goal. It was the most revolutionary pronouncement ever signed by an American president, impacting four million black

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Anna
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myth

    Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myth

    Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myth Brittany Marroquнn Abraham Lincoln is by far our most revered president in the history of the United States. He had a strong moral vision of where his country must go to preserve and enlarge the rights of all her people, but he was also a good man with a strong sense of character and a great discipline in the art of law; and he sought to continue

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Top
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Jon
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and a farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a baptist congregation which had separated from an another church due to opposition of slavery. Lincoln was a pretty average his whole life, despite his giantism.

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history--the CIVIL WAR. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president. Early Life Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest" in 1786;

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Brief Biography of Abraham Lincoln

    A Brief Biography of Abraham Lincoln

    A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809 On the stormy morning of Sunday, February 12, Nancy Hanks Lincoln , wife of Thomas , gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather. The birth took place in the Lincolns' rough-hewn cabin on Nolin Creek near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln was an uneducated carpenter and a farmer. Nancy Lincoln had

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Monika
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    “Yes! We’re coming Abraham Lincoln. With curses loud and deep. That will haunt you in your walking, and disturb you in your sleep.” This is a battle hymn sung by the Sons of Liberty which is the first Confederate run terrorist group Higham talks about. This hymn is a good example of the tone author Charles Higham sets for the book. Murdering Mr. Lincoln by Charles Higham, presents the reader with a factual, in-depth

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: David
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin located in Hodgenville Kentucky on the twelfth of February in the year of 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had one older sister (Sarah) who was born in 1807. Three years after Abraham was born, his mother gave birth to a baby boy they named Thomas. The family was faced with devastating turmoil when Thomas died while he was still an

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Vika
  • Biography of Abraham Lincoln

    Biography of Abraham Lincoln

    1809 On the stormy morning of Sunday, February 12, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas, gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather. The birth took place in the Lincolns' rough-hewn cabin on Nolin Creek near Hodgenville, Kentucky. (The picture to the right depicts a reassembled replica of the cabin purported to be Lincoln's birthplace.) Thomas Lincoln was

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Unknowns of the Death of Abraham Lincoln

    The Unknowns of the Death of Abraham Lincoln

    Gavin Willingham November 27, 2005 Mr. Ward American History H The Unknowns of the Death of Abraham Lincoln In the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop the accounts of the before and after are explained in a gripping suspense novel. Lincoln meets with his cabinet and lifts the blockade that has been enforced on the South. John Wilkes Booth and many conspirators plan the kidnap of Abraham Lincoln to regain the

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Abraham Lincoln Vs. Jefferson Davis

    Abraham Lincoln Vs. Jefferson Davis

    Abraham Lincoln was a very effective leader throughout the Civil War. Although he had no prior military experience, he proved to be an asset throughout the war. According to his contemporary critics, Abraham Lincoln's Presidential record was notable for his despotic use of power and his blatant disregard for the Constitution. Lincoln ordered thousands of arrests, kept political enemies in prison without bringing charges against them, refused these hapless men their right to trial by

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    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln once said, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me” (“Letter to Albert G. Hodges” 281 as qtd. in R.J. Norton 1). In accordance with his quote, when President Lincoln issued the unprecedented Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, Lincoln freed slaves in the Southern states, but he and his actions were being controlled by Civil War. The Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865

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    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Jack
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He started his presidential term during the start of the Civil War. A guy of the name of John Wilkes Booth was born May 10, 1838, he was an actor who performed throughout the country in many plays. He was the lead in some of William Shakespeare's most famous works. Additionally, he was a racist and Southern sympathizer during the Civil War. He

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    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Abraham Lincoln Brings the End to Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln Brings the End to Slavery

    Akshita Bajaj CLU3MO-C Mr. Nirwal Feb 29, 2016 Abraham Lincoln Brings the End to Slavery Abraham Lincoln has made an incredible reputation for himself by ending slavery in America. Lincoln was the 16th president of The United States of America and he significantly impacted laws that were held in the early revolutionary America. Abraham Lincoln brought the emancipation of slaves. Prior to Lincoln's successful election as president, several southern states seceded from The United States.

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    Submitted: February 15, 2018 By: Akshita Bajaj

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