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Abraham Lincoln was just elected to serve the Illinois Gerneral Assembly and the Whig Party, while doing this he speaks his thoughts about slavey and Abolitionism.
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Abraham moved to Springfield, Illinois to began to pratice law.
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Abraham was voted to go to the house of representives where he introduced a plan to abloish slavery in the District of Columbia.
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The Illnois General Assembly sends Lincoln to the State of Representives.
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Abraham delivers his famous line "a house divided against itself cannon stand."
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Abraham is running for the elections and he was gotten 39.8% of the votes, which was consider to be low, but he still won the elections from the other three representives.
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During Lincoln's short time in office South Carolina decided to secede from the Union because they thought Lincoln's viewpoint on slavery will hinder they way they are living now. They also wanted the Federal government to get rid of the military stationed at Charleston Habor.
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After winning the election, President Abraham Lincoln spoke in front of the people about the issues of slavery and what will be changed during the time he is in the office.
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The war begins at Fort Sumter
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During this year it was consider the most pivotal with military conflict and also social and political change. The federal government became more powerful while the state government got less power.
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It have been four years since the Civil war, Lincoln have discovered new military strategies and became the firs president to hold a patent. He uses telegraphs to communicate with soldiers on the battlefield, giving out directions there.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth in the theater that he attended with his wife.
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Lincoln have been voted again for a second term, in his speech he talks about the suffering people have went through in the past four years and now that the war have been won there will be changes applied to the people and the government.