Abraham Lincoln life after he was president?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

An ambitious but poor young man, Lincoln's early life left him in financial ruin. When he was in his 20?s he bought a general store with a friend and business associate - an investment he would later regret. Before the store went bankrupt Lincoln sold his share in the venture. However, his partner died shortly afterwards and Lincoln was forced to absorb his debts. He was taken to court by the store's creditors and lost ownership of his only remaining assets: a horse and some surveying equipment. His later career as an attorney eventually brought Lincoln out of complete poverty.

Personal Life

Lincoln married Mary Todd, daughter of a slave-owning family from Kentucky, in November 1842. Though the couple had four children from the marriage, all born in Springfield (Illinois), only one of them survived. The rest three died either during their childhood or teenage years. Robert Todd Lincoln was their first child, who was born in August 1843 and lived to see the world. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College. The other three children, who couldn't survive, were Edward Baker Lincoln (1846 - 1850), William Wallace Lincoln (1850 - 1862) and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853 - 1871).

Presidency and Civil War

With the win of Lincoln, South Carolina and six other cotton-growing states in the South left the Union and declared themselves to be a new nation - the ''Confederate States of America''. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy. Lincoln dodged possible assassins in Baltimore and reached Washington, DC, in disguise. His inauguration took place on 4th March 1861, where he was protected by German American Turners. In his inaugural address, he supported the pending Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, in an attempt to reunite the states.

Confederacy became an established fact by the time Lincoln took office, without any possibility of a compromise for rejoining the Union. In April 1861, after being refused secession, the South attacked Unionists. While Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas also seceded, slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware stay put. Rebel leaders in all the border areas were arrested, but none of them were executed. All of them were later released, with the only exception being Clement Vallandigham, who was exiled

Emancipation Proclamation

July 1862 saw Congress passing the Second Confiscation Act, aimed at making slaves free. The main aim behind this was to weaken the rebellion being led and controlled by slave owners. Though the legal institution of slavery was not abolished, it did show Congress' support for liberating slaves owned by rebels. The new law was implemented with Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation", which freed slaves in territories not under Union control. Following this, he concentrated his efforts on the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, for permanently abolishing slavery throughout the nation.

Second Presidential Election (1864)

The Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Chattanooga, in 1863, paved way for the promotion of Ulysses S. Grant General-in-Chief and his strategy. Lincoln was again selected as the Republican candidate and Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate. Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide win, where he won all but two states, capturing 212 of 233 electoral votes. He delivered his second inaugural address on 4thMarch 1865, with victory over the rebels at hand and slavery dead.

Reconstruction

During the war, reconstruction efforts were made to reintegrate the Southern states. Lincoln followed the moderate policy, urging holding of speedy elections under generous terms, throughout the war, in areas behind Union lines. He passed Amnesty Proclamation in December 1863, offering pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

Considering Lincoln's policy to be way too lenient, the Radicals passed their own plan, the Wade-Davis Bill, in the year 1864. Lincoln pocket-vetoed the bill, following which the Radicals refused to seat elected representatives from Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. With the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, in April 1865, the war was effectively over and even other rebel armies surrendered soon after.

Assassination

John Wilkes Booth, an actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, intended to kidnap Lincoln and secure the release of Confederate prisoners. However, Lincoln's speech, in which he promoted voting rights for blacks, incensed Booth and he decided to assassinate the President. On 14th April 1865, Lincoln went to attend the play 'Our American Cousin', in Ford's Theatre. Booth crept up behind the President, when the latter's lone bodyguard wandered, and fired a single-shot of round-slug .44 caliber Henry Deringer at his head, from point-blank range.

The President was taken to the Petersen House, where he lay in a coma for nine hours, before leaving for the heavenly abode. He was officially pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m., on 15th April 1865, at the age of 56. Though Booth managed to escape, he was cornered after a 12-day manhunt, in a Virginia barn house, and shot, dying of his wounds soon after. Lincoln was interred in The Lincoln Tomb, in Oak Ridge Cemetery of Springfield. In 1901, Robert Lincoln had Lincoln exhumed and reinterred in several feet thick concrete.

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Answer 2

He had no later life.

He was assassinated, in the job of President, five days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln was shot about 6 weeks into his second term, as US President.

Answer 4

Since Abraham Lincoln died in office (he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth) he had no career after the Presidency.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

had no after life