Abraham+LINCOLN+(1861-1865)

I belive that Abraham Lincoln was a very influential president to the people. He had no education but had a way of thinking that could put many people with an education to shame. (This is __YOUR ANALYSIS__. It should NOT be taken from any other sources but your own brain!) ||  || Lincoln was part of the whig party from Illionis. He ran for senate and lost to Stephen Douglas.He supported Zachary Taylor against Henry Clay in the 1848 election. He hoped to be appointed to commissioner of the general land office but that was given to Justin Butterfield. (i.e. roles before/after the presidency//)// ||  ||
 * //**Dates In office:** March 4, 1861- April 15, 1865// ||  ||
 * //**Political Party:** Republican// ||  ||
 * //Notes on Election(s): Lincoln ran agianist Stephen Douglas from the Northern Democratic party, John C. Breckenridge and Southern democratic party, and John Bell from the know nothing party.// ||  ||
 * //Vice President(s): Hannibal Hamlin for the first running as president, Andrew Jackson for the second// ||  ||
 * //Key Cabinet Officials: William H. Seward; secretary of state from (1861-1865),Salmon P. Chase;secretary of treasuryfrom (1861-1864), (William P. Fessenden (1864-1865) and Hugh McCulloch (1865) were also secretary of treasury) Simon Cameron;secretary of war (1861-1862)(Edwin M. Stanton (1862-1865), and Edward Bates;attorney General (1861-1864)(James Speed(1864-1865).// ||  ||
 * //Key Domestic Issues: The South seceeded during his presidency and The Civil War// ||  ||
 * //Key Foreign Policy/Diplomatic/Military Issues: He started the draft, and the first income tax, he suspended habeas corpus, he issued the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln couldn't find a good general to lead the drafted men.// ||  ||
 * Key Constitutional/Legal Issues: Habeas Corpus meant that no man should be imprisoned without a trail. Suspending habeas corpus put a lot of people on edge because it was viewed as unconstitutional but in article 1 section 9 clause 2 it saying in the case of a rebellion Habeas Corpus could be suspended. So he didnt break the constitution. ||  ||
 * Territorial Expansion During this Period: The only type of expansion for during lincoln's presidency was the homestead act which allowed someone to move to a property stay there for 5 years if the property was improved they could keep it. ||  ||
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 * Other Media/interesting things you've found/created:
 * Gettysburg address**
 * Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. **

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863


 * (this could be a link to a speech or a video clip, pictures of him in different contexts,**


 * one cool graphic or video you have created, etc)**** ||  ||