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Abe Lincoln
Title: Abe Lincoln
Category: History
Details: Words: 403 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Abe Lincoln
Born: 1809
Died: 1893
Years in Office: 1861-1865
Elected From: Illinois
Party: Republican
Vice President: 1) Hammibal Hamlin 2) Andrew Johnson
The future president was born in the most modest of circumstances in a log cabin
near Hodgenville, Kentucky., on Feb. 12, 1809. His entire childhood and young manhood
were spent on the brink of poverty as his pioneering family made repeated fresh starts in
the West. Opportunities for education, cultural activities, and even socializing were
meager.
When his father could spare …showed first 75 words of 403 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 403 total…had to find for himself the necessary powers by
which he could pursue the war and uphold his oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the
Constitution of the United States.
5. By his executive orders, Lincoln showed that he was going to be a strong president.
But his executive leadership went far beyond the mere administration of the war. By
word and deed he became, to many people in the North, a symbol of the Union.
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