US Presidents

To 12.02. in the year 1809 Abraham Lincoln came in the State of Kentucky on a farm to the world. Conditions, in which it buildup, were very ärmlich and it became both with school and with hard work on the farm largely. Later the family moved after Indiana and afterwards after Illinois; there they established themselves on still wild country. Lincoln's first woman it died all right early on which he married 1819 Sarah Bush John clay/tone, which likewise widow became and their three children along-brought. Around 1830 the family lived new Salem then in the small city, still in the State of Illinois. Lincoln had there working premises as land surveyor, buyer and post office owner. When the war broke 1832 off against the Sauk Indians, Abraham Lincoln participated as a volunteer in it. After the war course it exerted itself as a party member „of the Whigs “for the fact that the traffic routes is better removed and the educational system is improved. With the first attempt it failed, but in the year 1834 it achieved the mandate until 1842; in this year he married again. 1846 he was finally selected into the U.S. Congress, to which he belonged until 1849. It created it to cause the abolishment of the slavery in Columbia became however thereby for its supporters in Illinois unsympathisch, since it directly did not represent their interests in the congress any longer. Thus it came to a withdrawal from the policy in the years 1849 to 1860. As an attorney it was however still active and tried against the expansion of the slave attitude in the Southern States to still begin. Since it engaged itself much for it, it changed in the year 1856 to the republican party and arrived at the leading position. 1860 one selected it to the president of the United States. It placed itself against the splitting off of the Southern States and proceeded both politically and militarily against their props after autonomy. In „the war of secession “in the years from 1861 to 1865 the northern states united against the Southern States, however Lincoln could reach the back conquest of the Southern States. It tried to waive the there dominant slavery. 1864 again selected the people Lincoln to the president, since its politics seemed successful. It could convince the Southern States in the year 1865 even of the surrender in the civil war. For the further implementation of a reconstruction of the union it did not create it however, since it became to angeschossen on 14.04. the 1865 of the assassin John Wilkes Booth, which originated from the Southern States. On the next day Lincoln at the consequences of the injury in a hospital in Washington died.