Abraham Lincoln Research Paper

Abraham Lincoln is indeed known to be one of the best presidents of America. He is remembered for a lot of things like his leadership in the Civil War, his speeches, his letters and him ending slavery in the US. His main and top goal during his presidency was to end slavery and free the slaves. He did everything he could to end slavery and he succeeded, but after some time he was assassinated.

Early Life

Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. He had two siblings named Sarah and Thomas, both of them died in infancy. When Lincoln was 9 years old his mother died of a disease called tremetol so later on his father married another woman named Sarah Bush (“Lincoln early

Both of his parents were illiterate so Sarah encouraged Lincoln to read. He received very little education in less than a year but he continued to teach himself. On March, 1830 the family moved again, this time to Macon County, Illinois. Lincoln helped his dad set up a farm and then started making his own living. He moved to a town called New Salem. There he worked as a postmaster, a shopkeep keeper, a lawyer and as a boatman. He also had a job in a general store. There he worked and impressed a lot of people in the town by his intelligence and wisdom and he quickly became a popular person (“Abraham Lincoln, Biography”,n.d.). After 6 months the Black Hawk War started and he volunteered to fight. The fellow volunteers chose him as the temporary captain and he became more popular because of this. Eventually, the war ended. He attracted a lot of attention because of his great leadership. Andrew Jackson who was the president at the time and was democrat selected Lincoln as the postmaster of New Salem despite the fact that Lincoln supported the republican candidate Henry Clay in the 1832 presidential election. He ran for the state legislature again in 1834 and he won this time, even some democrats supported