Many know when launched into space the first man, or the Second World War.And if readers know, when slavery was abolished in the United States and, most importantly, whose is the merit?Who was the man who took on this responsibility?Abraham Lincoln is one of the greatest heroes of America due to its uniqueness and incredible influence on the masses.
Childhood future liberator
Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky.His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.The father of the future president was a strong and determined pioneer who earned a good well-being and has become quite respected in the community.Abraham had another older sister Sarah, and a younger brother, Thomas, who died in infancy.Due to the land dispute the family was forced to move from the state of Kentucky in Perry, Indiana, in 1817.
where they lived by hunting and agriculture, and eventually were able to afford to buy back land for themselves.When the next president, the abolition of slavery in the United States, was nine years old, his mother died.This was a heavy shock to the child.Abraham Lincoln grew very alienated from his father and quietly resented doing the hard work that has been entrusted to him since childhood.
Educating young Abraham
A few months after the death of the spouse Thomas Lincoln married Sarah, a widow from Kentucky with three own children.She was strong and gentle woman with whom Abraham quickly found a common language.Despite the fact that both parents of the boy were most likely illiterate, Sarah insisted that Abraham Lincoln learned to read.The books were a huge deficit in the desert state of Indiana.
And Neighbors later recalled, as the future President Abraham walked many kilometers, to borrow a book.He often read the family Bible and other popular literature at the time - such as "Robinson Crusoe" or "Aesop's Fables".
start an independent life
When Abraham Lincoln was twenty-two years, he considers that he has reached an age at which it's time to start an independent life.He was lanky, but physically very strong young man, and a good command of the ax.Young Lincoln migrated to the small community of New Salem, Illinois, where for years he worked as a merchant.
It is here, among the public, it acquires social skills and hone the talent of the narrator, who has made it popular among locals.In 1832 begins the war between the United States and Native Americans, and Abraham is a volunteer.In military battles he was not involved, but was able to purchase some important political contacts.
As political career began
After the war, Lincoln began his political activities and was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the state of Illinois in 1834 as a member of the Whig party.Even then begin to form its negative views on slavery.And not just from a moral point of view but also as a significant obstacle to economic development.
Around the same time, Abraham decided to become a lawyer, he moved to Springfield and begins practice in a law firm.In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the House of Representatives of the United States, where he served one term.At this time Abraham demonstrates the power of his party.
Lincoln opposes the US-Mexican War, and wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, but rejects the bill, as it failed to gather enough supporters.Unfortunately, it not yet come a time when slavery was abolished in the United States.And there were very few supporters of such a policy.In the second period of Abraham Lincoln is not running and resume his law practice in Springfield.
When the US abolished slavery.Started in the most expensive conflict
By 1850, slavery was still legal in the southern United States.But overall it was outlawed in the northern states, including Illinois, whose original Constitution of 1818 prohibits slavery, as required by the North-Western ruling.So when slavery was abolished in the United States?And what does this have to do with Lincoln?
In 1854 Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise.He forbade slavery in the territories of the Mississippi River.And now their own separate territories could decide for themselves, should allow slavery or not.The law provoked a strong opposition in Kansas and Illinois.It awakened the political zeal of Abraham Lincoln, who wants the United States finally abolished slavery.In 1856 he joined the Republican Party.
In 1857 th Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision, saying that African Americans were not citizens and had no inherent rights.But Lincoln believed that absolutely all human beings are created with certain inalienable rights.He even challenges Stephen Douglas in the US Senate seat.But the Legislature elected Douglas.
And in 1860 the politicians in Illinois organized a campaign in support of Lincoln to the presidency.In the general election, Abraham got forty percent of the vote.Before the inauguration of the new, sixteenth president - Lincoln, in March 1861, seven southern states seceded from the Union.It began the most expensive and most deadly conflict of America.But this was preceded by a period of the time abolished slavery in the United States.
beginning of the war and the publication of the new law
Abraham Lincoln responded to the crisis than any other president before him would not have dared.Taking the treasury two million dollars without the approval of Congress, he spent them on war material called seventy-five thousand volunteers for military service without a declaration of war.Despite the first defeat, he manages to keep the morale of the Union Army, and January 1, 1863, he passed a law that all persons are held as slaves, must now be released.This was the year when slavery was abolished in the United States.
Gradually military battle came to an end.Triumphs, and April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his forces.The war was over.Unfortunately, Abraham was not only a lot of supporters, but at least as many enemies who did not support his political views, have a solid development in the protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual.And April 14, 1865 who abolished slavery in the United States, was killed by well-known actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth.So suddenly interrupted life and political career of the sixteenth president of the United States.
