Biography of a President
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Although many recognize the President of the United States as our chief executive, the Executive Branch itself carries more roles and responsibilities than many realize. The Executive Branch preserves the rights and safeties guaranteed to all citizens.
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History timeline The Executive Branch of the US Government - Biography of a President
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- Abraham Lincoln is Born
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809 in Kentucky to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. The Lincolns moved to Indiana when Abraham was nine. He began his formal education and learned how to read and write in Indiana.
- Lincoln Begins his Political Career
- Lincoln Elected to Illinois State Legislature
- In 1834, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Illinois State Legislature. Soon after his victory, Lincoln began to teach himself law, and within three years he was admitted to the Illinois Bar Association.
- In 1832, Abraham Lincoln announced his decision to run for the Illinois General Assembly. Although he was defeated, Lincoln made a name for himself as he argued for the preservation of the Sangamon River.
- Lincoln Elected to Congress
- A House Divided Speech
- A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free....I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. ...It will become all one thing or all the other.
- In 1846, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the U.S. Congress. Lincoln was elected during a tumultuous time in American history, as the issue of slavery was slowly tearing the nation apart.
- Lincoln Elected President
- In 1858, Lincoln propelled himself into the national spotlight with his famous House Divided speech. He said that slavery in America could no longer exist. He argued that the division between slave and anti-slave states could tear the nation apart.
- Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the U.S. By the time of his inauguration, seven states had left the Union. Lincoln's task of preserving the Union would be one of the most challenging tasks ever called upon a sitting president.
- That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
- Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation
- President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln proclaims that all slaves in the rebel states are to be set free. The Proclamation also called for the enlistment of African American soldiers into the Union army.
- Lincoln is Assassinated
- On this day in history, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's assassin was an advocate for the South, and was able to burst into the President's private theater box and kill the President with a single bullet to the head.
- 13th Amendment Ratified
- Section 1.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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- On this date in history, Congress ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment was ratified eight months following the Civil War, and finally ended America's ties to slavery.
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