ABRAHAM LINCOLN A GREAT LEADER AND THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PRESIDENT OF USA

INTRODUCTION: HI EVERYONE I am Chandan. I have written the biography of Abraham Lincoln. He was a great leader and the most influential president of America. You have curiosity, and if you are interested and curious to read about inspirational personality biography. You may visit on this blog. I hope you will enjoy to read it.

 1. THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GREAT LEADER AND A GREAT PRESIDENT OF USA ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 BIRTH: February 12, 1809 Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA DEATH: April 15, 1865 in Washington, D. C. USA 

 Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA. He was a great and prominent leader and president of America. Abraham was the most influential personality of the America as well as the world. He led the country during the American Civil War. He was fondly called "Honest Abe" and " Father Abraham". Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln. From a very young age, Lincoln took a keen interest in studies. For the most part, he was self- educated. Even though both his parents were not educated and unschooled, they always wanted the best education for him. He was a good son too. 

2. To support his family, Lincoln worked many odd jobs such as being a shopkeeper and a postmaster. Later, he moved to politics. And at the age of 25, he won a seat in the Illinios legislature. One of the main reasons Lincoln entered in politics was because he was against slavery, that had spread to different regions of the US. He wanted to develop and expand the United States. His main focus was on commerce rather than agriculture. Before Lincoln became president, he served in the Illinois state legislature for many terms. To understand the political ground, he studied law and successfully passed the bar examination in 1836. Later, he worked as a lawyer under John T. Stuart. There, he competed for a seat in the US Congress, which he won. Lincoln served as a congressman for one whole term. For this next election, he delivered a speech in Peoria in which he addressed his abhorrence for slavery and talked about the equality of rights amongst people. For his candidacy, he spoke about the anti slavery and Free Soil ideologies.

3. In 1858, Lincoln was chosen for the US Senate. During this time began the popular Lincoln- Douglas debates, also known as "The Great Debates of 1858'. It was a series of seven debates against the Democrat Stephen Douglas, mostly revolving around the issue of slavery. The year 1860 was quite a prosperous year for Lincoln. He fought for the seat of the president of the United States. Lincoln eventually won the 1860 elections and became the president of the US in 1861. He gained lots of support from the North and the West. 

4. But at that time, Southern states did not want Lincoln to be the president. They were against his policies and diplomatic. The South decided to remove itself from the Union and formed a separate nation called the Confederate States of America. Lincoln refused to accept the Confederacy and declared it illegal. He still stood strongly for free-soil and slave-free states. This situation created the most deadly conflict in America's history. In 1861, the Civil War started, just a month after Lincoln joined office. He took the help of the Northern state armies to defeat the South. It soon turned into a bloody war which lasted for four years and millions of Americans lost their lives. But, Lincoln still managed to hold the country together. In 1863, he announced the Emancipation proclamation, an order that freed the slaves the Confederate states. It also created a thirteenth Amendment, which released all slaves in the United States in the following years.

 5. Lincoln spent months preparing the army and the country for emancipation. In a short time, around three million slaves were released from the Confederate regions. Those slaves were then absorbed into the military according to the policy that Lincoln had established. On April 9, 1865, the Civil War finally ended. During the war, many Southern states were heavily damaged. 

Abraham wanted to help these states but, sadly, he didn't live long enough to see the country rebuild itself. Lincoln married Mary Todd on November 4, 1842. 

6.  The couple had four sons. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while he was watching a play. He died on April 15, 1865, at the age of 56. Post death, his body was wrapped in the American flag.

7.  So guys if you are inspired by this beautiful and inspiring biography and an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. You can also be anything whatever you want to be. Because you can read here that Abraham was learner student in the beginning. And his parents were illiterate and unschooled. But his parents always wanted best for Abraham. You should do something in your life. Thanks for reading it. I hope you will enjoy to read it. Have a great day!