Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

If you have a vision or a goal for the future, you should focus on taking action to make it happen rather than just waiting to see what will happen or relying on other people.

If you want to see a particular outcome in the future, you must take charge and make it happen yourself.

Abraham LincolnBrief personal history.

On February 12, 1809, Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln brought their son Abraham into the world in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

He had an older sister named Sarah.
Lincoln’s family moved to Indiana when he was seven years old, settling there on a farm in the southern part of the state.
Lincoln’s mother died when he was nine, leaving him devastated.

Lincoln received only a few months of formal education during his childhood.
He was primarily self-taught and loved to read.

At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he worked as a store clerk and a postmaster. During this time, he began to study law.

He was chosen to serve in the Illinois state legislature in 1834 and did so for several terms.

Lincoln was admitted to the bar in 1846 and started his law practice in Springfield, Illinois.

In 1846, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving once.

In 1854, Lincoln re-entered politics, speaking out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery.

This act helped spark the formation of the Republican Party, and Lincoln became a leading figure. In 1860, he was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate and won the election.

The Civil War, which started in 1861, preoccupied Lincoln’s presidency.
He thought that keeping the union together was the most important thing.

In 1863, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which said that all slaves in Confederate territory had to be set free.
He also delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous addresses in American history, in 1863.

Lincoln was re-elected to a second term in 1864.

A few days after the Civil War ended, on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
He died the following day, April 15, 1865.

His death saddened everyone in the country, and he is still considered one of the best presidents in U.S. history.

Episodes.

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War.

“The Gettysburg Address”

President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech called “The Gettysburg Address” on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War.

The speech was given at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Union soldiers had fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier.

People think of this speech as one of the best in American history, and it is often used as an example of how to give a powerful lesson.
It only lasts a little over two minutes, but its message is powerful and lasts for a long time.

The text of the Gettysburg Address is as follows:

“Our forefathers founded a new nation in liberty, committed to the idea that all people are created equal, four score and seven years ago on this continent.”

We are in the middle of a big civil war that will test the strength of that country and any other country with the same ideas and goals. We meet on a significant battleground from that conflict.

We’ve decided to set aside a portion of that field as a place of eternal rest for those who gave their lives here so that this nation could exist. We should do this because it is proper to do so.

However, we cannot dedicate, consecrate, or hallow this ground in a broader sense. The brave men who fought here, alive and dead, have devoted far more to it than our meager ability to add to or subtract from it.

What we say here will be noticed or remembered for a while, but what they did here will always be remembered.

Instead, the unfinished business that those who fought here have thus far so valiantly advanced is for us, the living, to dedicate ourselves to here.
Instead, it is up to us to be present and committed to the outstanding task.

— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of faith — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earthen earth.”

“The Kansas-Nebraska Act”

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a contentious piece of legislation passed by the US Congress in 1854.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed for the bill, making Kansas and Nebraska territories.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was significant because it repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in regions north of the 36°30′ parallel.
The act instead allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty, which meant that the people living in those territories would vote on whether or not to allow slavery.

The act led to a fierce debate between those who supported and opposed slavery.
It also sparked violence and bloodshed in Kansas, known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded into the territory and debated whether Kansas should be a slave state.

One of the significant occasions that sparked the American Civil War was the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
It helped galvanize the anti-slavery movement in the North and contributed to the formation of the Republican Party.
The act also made the North and South more and more different on the issue of slavery, which made the country more and more divided along sectional lines.