Lincoln

Examples of Lincoln in the following topics:

• Lincoln's Plan and Congress's Response

  • During this time, the Radical Republicans used Congress to block Lincoln's moderate approach.
  • Congress reacted sharply to this proclamation of Lincoln's plan.
  • Lincoln later pocket vetoed this new bill.
  • Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice president who took over the presidency after Lincoln's assassination, attempted to continue Lincoln's vision for Reconstruction.
  • An 1864 political cartoon—featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln, and others—takes a swing at Lincoln's administration.

• The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

  • The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped Lincoln rise to national prominence and secure the Republican presidential nomination in the election of 1860.
  • The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas.
  • Lincoln, who had served as the only Whig representative from Illinois in the U.S.
  • Lincoln's vehement opposition to the expansion of slavery in the territories did not mean that he supported emancipation or social equality among races.
  • Evaluate how the Lincoln-Douglas debates shaped Lincoln’s political career and the election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln's Family

  • After President Lincoln’s assassination, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln secured the first life pension for the widow of a president, and their son Robert rose to prominence as a lawyer and politician.
  • Mary and her son Robert Lincoln sat with the president through the night.
  • President Lincoln died the following morning.
  • Robert Lincoln, who had served on Ulysses S.
  • Discuss the experiences of Mary Todd and Robert Lincoln in the aftermath of President Lincoln's death

• The End of the War

  • Lincoln and moderate Republicans favored a quick, straightforward reintegration into the Union for the Southern states.
  • Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan, thinking it too lenient toward the Southern states.
  • Booth killed Lincoln three days later.
  • Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected as Lincoln's vice president in 1864, became president.
  • (Lincoln): "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended!"

• The 13th Amendment

  • The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
  • Abraham Lincoln was one of the leading figures behind the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

• Lincoln and Republican Victory in 1860

  • Lincoln won in the Electoral College with less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide, leading contemporaries to cite the split in the Democratic Party as a contributing factor to Lincoln's victory.
  • Like Lincoln in the North, Southern Democrat Breckinridge won no electoral votes outside of the South.
  • Although Lincoln and his advisors dismissed Southern alarm over the possibility of Republican victory, many observers recognized that Lincoln's election could result in disunion.
  • In 10 of the 11 states that would later declare secession, Lincoln's ticket did not even appear on the ballot; in Virginia, he received only 1 percent of the popular vote.
  • In the four slave states that did not secede (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware), Lincoln came in third or fourth.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
  • The Confederacy sought to win independence by out-lasting Lincoln.
  • However, after Atlanta fell and Lincoln defeated McClellan in the election of 1864, all hope for a political victory for the South ended.
  • Although Lincoln's approach to emancipation was slow, the Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers.
  • Lincoln's naval blockade was 95% effective at stopping trade goods.

• Union Politics

  • Prior to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln attempted to abstain from the debate over slavery, arguing that he had no constitutional authority to intervene.
  • Lincoln faced strong opposition from Copperhead Democrats, who demanded an immediate peace settlement with the Confederacy.
  • Moderate Republicans accepted Lincoln's plan for gradual, compensated emancipation, which was put into effect in the District of Columbia.
  • When none of the states returned to the Union by that date, Lincoln honored his proclamation, and the order immediately took effect.
  • The Copperhead Democrats strongly opposed emancipation and pressured Lincoln to make peace with the Confederacy.

• The Battle over Reconstruction

  • President Lincoln planned that the eleven Confederate states that had seceded could be readmitted to the Union by meeting some tests of political loyalty.
  • However, Congress refused to count any of the votes from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, essentially rejecting Lincoln's moderate Reconstruction plan as too lenient.
  • Lincoln pocket-vetoed this bill.
  • After Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President.
  • In May 1865, Johnson made his own proclamation that was very similar to Lincoln's.

• Emancipation

  • In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
  • President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers.
  • On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure because it was solely based upon Lincoln's war powers.