How Abraham Lincoln Changed History

We the people have lost our way in history and need to be reminded of when and where we made some big changes in the history of our nation. Abraham Lincoln our 16 president gave a speech that helped end the Civil War which some say is the greatest speech Abraham has ever delivered. Another great speaker was Henry Clay he spoke about a strong American system. We will also be looking at the early lives of these two speakers that changed history with their voice.
The speech from Abraham lincoln is still known today very well it is one of the most popular speeches he ever gave. It was called the “Gettysburg Address”. This speech was presented about a year and a half before the end of the Civil War. The speech talked about how every man
He said if we
“modify our foreign policy and adopt and genuine American System” then it would fix the tariff problems we have.(Clay, 1824, Par. 1) Now we should see how and what these men did in their life. Abraham's life began in Hardin County, Kentucky. Date of birth was February 12, 1809.
He lived in a small log cabin consisting of one bed room until 1816 when his family decided to move to southern Indiana. He was only ever school for three short periods due to the work he had to do to support his family. He worked as a shoe keeper and a postmaster. The thing that pushed him towards politics is him becoming a supporter of the Whig party. He liked agreed with the Whigs party because of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster people that didn’t support the spread of slavery across the nation. He self-taught himself the law. He was assassinated as president on April 15, 1865.(The Success of Abraham Lincoln )
Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777. He is known very well because of him first becoming a frontier lawyer than a senator of Kentucky and finally becoming the speaker of