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Abraham Lincoln

by Jonah from Drayton Valley

There are many people who think Abraham Lincoln was the most important man in American history. He was arguably the best president in American history but he didn't have an easy road getting there. I believe Abraham Lincoln deserves the title of best president. I'm going to tell you about Abraham winning the election, freeing the slaves, and how he won the civil war.

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First of all Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election even though he had no support from the south. Abraham Lincoln became president on March 4, 1861 but had no support from the Southern half of the states because all of the states down south were using and abusing the slaves and part of Abraham's campaign was to stop slavery because he saw slavery as a sin.

Also Abraham Lincoln, after being elected for president, had more difficult tasks to perform as president because freeing the slaves was no easy feat. On January 1, 1864 Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves forever. The difficulty of passing the anti-slavery law was the Southern states. They used slaves as the work force for their companies and if they didn't have any slaves they didn't have anyone to do the labor work for their company.

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Last but not least Abraham Lincoln fought and won the Civil War throughout the course of four years. The war started April 12, 1861 when the Confederates fired on the union. On April 15 of 1861 Lincoln gathered 75,000 troops to fight the Confederates. After Fort Sumter was captured, Lincoln decided to make a strategy to finish the Confederates. Abraham decided to protect Washington and use aggressive war efforts to try to end the war quickly. On April 1, 1865 the union successfully outflanked the Confederates and won the battle of Five Forks. Three days later the union forced the Confederates to surrender and give up the war.

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Abraham Lincoln should be recognized as one of the greatest Americans of all time because against all odds he pulled through and fought to become president, as president he stopped slavery and made millions of people's quality of life better, he also fought and won the civil war. Now do you think he deserves the title of the greatest American presidents of all time?

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Bibliography

contributers , Multipul . "Abraham Lincoln Wikipedia ." [Online] Available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln.