What were ten major accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln's life were a series of accomplishments that by all standards were major ones. These accomplishments can be listed as follows, and includes thirteen such accomplishments:1. In 1834 he was elected to the first of four consecutive terms to the Illinois House;

2. In 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, representing Illinois and served one term;

3. In 1858 he was nominated by the Republican Party of Illinois for the US Senate seat held by nationally known Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who was a Democrat;

4. He made a name for himself as a national figure when Douglas accepted Lincoln's challenge for a series of debates. These debates were widely covered by the national media. Lincoln, however, lost to Senator Douglas;

5. He was nominated by the Republican Party to run for the US Presidency in 1860. In doing so he defeated challenges by other prominent Republican contenders;

6. He won the election in 1860 to become the first Republican president, the first president from Illinois, and the first US president who openly was an opponent of slavery;

7. In 1861 he mobilized via executive order, troops to end the serious rebellion by Southern states to create an independent nation apart form the United States of America;

8. In July of 1861 when the US Congress convened, Lincoln petitioned for and received Congressional approval to raise funds and recruit thousands of volunteer soldiers to end the Confederate rebellion;

9. In 1862 he initiated as a war measure, a preliminary emancipation proclamation that would free slaves in 1863 in the states that were in the Confederacy. Although he could not enforce it, this proclamation would eventually lead to a 1865 Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the US;

10. He prosecuted the armed intervention by US forces to vigorously end the Southern rebellion. This he did despite many attempts by peace groups to end the war;

11. He was renominated by the Republican Party to run for reelection in 1864 for the presidency;

12. He won the 1864 election for a second term as president; and

13. Lincoln was in office to over see the surrender of the South's most prominent general, General Lee and his surrender of his Army of the Potomac.

A few days later he was shot and died on April 15, 1865. Lincoln was the first US president to be assassinated.

Answer 2

One accomplishment is he ran for president and became the sixteenth president.