My Lincoln power point

1. USDAgov, President Abraham Lincoln, 2-27-12 via
Flickr.com, Attribution License
Ryan Gavin

2. Political Background
 State Legislature four terms, 1834-
1841
 1836- Lincoln obtained attorney
License
 Early on was part of the Whig party
 Transformed Whig party into
Republicans
 Republicans were pro-business,
anti-slavery

3. Political Leadership
 FilledCabinet with major rivals
 By inauguration, seven states
seceded
 Main goal was to preserve the
Union
 Passed key pieces of Legislation
and speeches

4. Early Military Leadership
 Not respected as a Military
leader, early on.
 Only war can save the Union
 Lacked Military knowledge, no
real background
 “The main thing is the main thing”

5. Military Leadership in
action
 Ordered provisioning to Fort Sumter
 Summoned state militia to Federal
Service
 Blockade issued of Confederate
ports
 Ulysses S. Grant General-in-Chief
 Emancipation Proclamation

6. Emancipation Proclamation
 Issued January 1st, 1863
 Issued in two separate parts
 “A necessary war measure”
 Only applied to states that were rebelling
SFGiants, Emancipation Proclamation, 2-27-12 via
Wikipedia.org, Attribution License

7. What it did
 Freed slaves under control of
Confederates.
 Did not free “Boarder States”
slaves
 Disrupted Confederate farming
economy
 Foreign demand for exports fell.

8. Why?
 Enabled freed slaves to fight for
Union
 Stopped France and England
from joining Confederates
 Enabled more soldiers for the
Union
 Lincoln couldn’t just free all slaves

9. Significant
Accomplishments
 Transcontinental Railroad System
 Homestead Act
 Thirteenth Amendment
 Gettysburg Address

10. Transcontinental
Railroad
Cave cattum, Transcontinental railroad
route, 2-27-12 via wikimedia.org, Attribution
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 Officially
completed May 10, 1869
 Connected East and West coast
 Easier and Safer
 Put many immigrants to work

11. Homestead Act
 Started to use unclaimed land
 Claim up to 160 acres
 Must “improve” the land
 Helped expand U.S. with
Transcontinental Railroad

12. 13 th Amendment
 Passed only two votes above 2/3
majority
 Not required, Lincoln signed
anyway
 Abolished slavery
 Gave Congress power to enforce
article

13. Gettysburg Address
 Speech by Lincoln on November
19, 1863
 At Gettysburg National Cemetery
 Related to the Declaration of
Independence
 Still commonly used and quoted
today.

14. Relation to Declaration of
Independence
 “…Proposition that all men are
created equal”
 What happened here

15. Why the beard?
 Grace Bedell’s letter to Lincoln
 Lincoln’s letter to Grace
 Shows inequality in women

16. Works Cited
"Abraham Lincoln: Presidency." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
© 1994, 2000-2006, on Infoplease.
© 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease.
27 Feb. 2012 <http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0859298.html>.
Abraham Lincoln - early political career. (n.d.). Retrieved February 27, 2012, from Advameg, Inc.
website: http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Washington-Johnson/
Abraham-Lincoln-Early-political-career.html
Abraham Lincoln. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://sc94.ameslab.gov/tour/alincoln.html
Abraham Lincoln: first Republican President and Civil War leader. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h837.html
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (2012). Retrieved from The Lincoln Institute website:
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=146&CRLI=203
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. (2003). Retrieved from Anti-Slavery Society website:
http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hus-emancproc.htm
Beaver, E., Reily, M., & Snyer, N. (n.d.). Blacks in the Civil War. Retrieved from
http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/HY/Hy243Ruiz/Research/civilwar.html

17. Works Cited Continued
Transcontinental Railroad. (2012). Retrieved from A&E Television Networks, LLC website:
http://www.history.com/topics/transcontinental-railroad
Teaching with documents: The Homestead Act of 1862. (n.d.). Retrieved from The U.S. National
Archives and Records Administration website: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
homestead-act/
Passage by the House. (2008). Retrieved from HarpWeek website: http://13thamendment.harpweek.com/
hubpages/CommentaryPage.asp?Commentary=05HousePassage
Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's famous thoughts on the Civil War. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h838.html