Abraham+Lincoln+5

**Abraham Lincoln:**
**-interesting facts:** -assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th, 1865 (first presidential murder in history) -had 4 boys with Marry Todd (wife) and only one lived to maturity -16th president -first republican elected to presidency **-beliefs:** -thought secession illegal >>willing to use force to defend that belief -rejected organized religion (believed in independent religious opinions) -religious views were inconsistent with Ohio’s motto “With God, all things are possible.” -believed civil war involved an eve larger issue

-helped strengthen republican party -rallied most of the Northern Democrats to union cause. -issued emancipation proclamation>freed slaves within the confederacy. -his life was compared to Jesus’s and was considered a martyr when he died. -transformed the president’s role as commander in chief **-which side was he on?** -North/republican -Whig in beginning of his political career -Gettysburg address -emancipation proclamation -Lincoln-douglas debate of 1858 -president -called for volunteer army from every state>leads to secession declarations from four states. (when Fort Sumpter was attacked by confederate forces.)
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//Works Cited:// http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alrintr.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html