How Did Abraham Lincoln Impact The World

Bang! The sound of a gun was heard throughout the Ford’s Theater as screams made its way further down the auditorium. A drastic impact was made as the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, became painfully and slowly unconscious from the bullet that was shot to his head. His death shifted the way the people of America thought of him and the policies he created. The mark he left on the nation and the history he built of America would never fail to bring back the legacy he made. He worked his way up and into what he’s known as one of the greatest presidents of American history.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in Nolin Creek, Hardin County, Kentucky. Lincoln had obstacles that confronted his way during his childhood and up to his adult life. He came from a poor family which depended on Lincoln and his dad to complete the heavy work. With their essentials low, the Lincolns decided to move to Indiana where the land was cheap and slavery wasn’t allowed. At the age of eleven, when Lincoln had the opportunity, he attended school. Lincoln was brilliant at school. He was an excellent speller and read when he had the time. His childhood then, was busy of completing tasks for the family. He took the opportunity of going to school to get away from the duties he was directed to do. Even up to his teenage
years, he worked and gained job after job. It wasn’t until he was nineteen when he decided to leave Pigeon Creek, Indiana and attempt New Orleans. He then moved to Illinois.
Around his twenties, Lincoln had gotten interested in law and politics.
He decided to run for small positions in the Illinois government. He greeted and communicated with the people and voters to persuade them to vote for him. Being a Whig, there were some commotion between his party and the other parties that were in the government, but he helped strengthen his party. There were conflicts and difficulties, but Lincoln faced these problems. He listened and observed, absorbing the ropes of the legislature. He learned much during his terms and earned the reputation of being an honest and intelligent man. This was just the beginning of Lincoln’s start to the
presidency.
Lincoln began to view the government differently. He started to see the inequalities America was facing. At the age of 25, he opposed slavery. He believed in rights for all people and he sensed it wasn’t right for African Americans to be enslaved because of their race or their background.
Lincoln suffered from clinical depression, or melancholia. Through the depression, he moved forward and eventually became a great leader. He had strong beliefs and opinions and fought to obtain what he thought was right. He took his job seriously and took the responsibility that was ahead of him.
The day approached when he was elected president of the United States. The obstacles that aimed for him never bothered Lincoln to attempt into trying to resolve the dilemmas. There were disagreements with the Cabinet, but that never brought Lincoln into giving up what he believed in. He was still against slavery and desired to do something about it.
The Southern states began to secede from the Union once they heard about Lincoln’s decision on freeing the slaves. Lincoln made a way to strive for the South to return back to the Union with a speech:
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Through passion may have been strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will get swell the chorus of the Union, when again touches as surely they will be, by the better angels of our future.”
This speech did not affect nor convince the South, though.
The Civil War came and this added additional pressure built on Lincoln. The Southern states were stubborn into letting the slaves go and didn’t want to purse what the president sought. Nevertheless, Lincoln was committed to his work and continued to persevere in one of America’s darkest times.
The time between the Civil War, Lincoln took the opportunity to make the Emancipation Proclamation. This encouraged escaped slaves to have a chance to come through the border and be free from slavery.
The war impacted the country into crumbles. The Union eventually defeated the Confederacy, but the land was in ruins. The damage was undeniably immense and it was all up to Lincoln’s decision on how to rebuild back the nation.
The day celebrating the victory of the Union, Lincoln made a goal not to rejoice, but to cover the occurrences and his plan of action of reconstruction. He introduced the complex topic of reconstruction to the people and thought that this was an important issue to address even if it was a celebratory day. He viewed Reconstruction “not simply as an end in itself, but as a means of winning the war.”
On the same day later that night, Lincoln and his wife left the White House and to Ford’s Theater where a performance was being played in honor of the war concluding to an end. John Wilkes Booth had other plans.
The same night was when President Abraham Lincoln got assassinated and was proclaimed dead the following morning.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, was one of the most memorable presidents in American history who thrived to get what he thought was right. The legacy he put on the nation and the way he changed it drastically revolutionized what America is now. He was a leader guiding our nation into a path he believed was good, and he had a vision that our country would be better and prosper. He led the nation with integrity. Abraham Lincoln’s act improved the presidency and changed the minds of people into considering good. He put himself out into the position he was in and the leader we know him today as.