Abraham Lincoln hoped for the victorious and quick end to the Civil War that was dividing the country. To reunite the North and the South under one flag and be one nation again, for a nation divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln also hoped to end slavery with his signing the Emancipation Proclamation.
During the Civil War, he simply wanted to bring the South easily back into the Union.
Frederic Douglass came to see Lincoln during a White House reception. Lincoln received him gratiously.
There were many groups and people who were against Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Anyone who did not want to see slavery abolished where the front runners. A group of Northerners known as the Copperheads were some fo the more vocal.
Lincoln was watching the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater when he was shot
After Abraham Lincoln became president. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, stating that "if you are a slave, you should be free". Stating that in the Proclamation, he was really trying to get people to join the union. He told the people in the south that if they were to join they can keep their slaves. If not their slaves will be freed. As you probably know that when Lincoln was running for president he was running because he was trying to end slavery. After being elected he had owned a few slaves himself.
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As Abraham Lincoln is a person's name you would write it as you see it in English.
Abraham Lincoln went to see the battle field two weeks after the battle was fought.
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For a picture of the Lincoln assassination, see Sources and related links.
John Wayne did not play Abraham Lincoln. See the link below for a complete list of John Wayne movies.
Abraham Lincoln's parents were not black . . . if you see photographs of them, they clearly appear to be white.
"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. " is the last line of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. See the link below.Abraham Lincoln
Although this is often said about Abraham Lincoln, it is not true. For a thoroughly researched essay on Lincoln's real and imagined failures before becoming President, see http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lincoln.asp .