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Jeff Water Abraham Lincolns life.  Abraham Lincolns Choices in office led to one of the biggest changes in American history. The change was the freedom of slaves. The effect his family life had on him made what his life was like in presidency. He helped most slaves become free because of the emancipation proclamation. The 4 aspects that I believe contributed to this document was his Childhood, family, and the civil war. I also think his assassination led to more changes to America.   Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. His whole childhood from the day he was born until he moved to Indiana was in a log cabin. At a young age he learned to chop wood and farm for money. His father needed help on their 348 acre farm. Abraham loved to read, and learn about the world. His father did not like him reading, he thought he should be working in the field instead of reading. This lead to a bad relationship between Abraham and his father. But what lead to his anti slavery belief was in his church. The church he went to wanted slavery, and the Lincoln family did not, so they left and went to a church which did not want slavery.   Abraham's family effected his life in presidency. He had a sister Sarah and a brother who died during birth. His mother cared for him very much but died when he was 9. a year later his father remarried to Sarah Johnston. Abraham and his step mother were very close, he even called her mom, even though him and his father were very distant.   During Lincolns presidency he started one of the most famous wars of all time. The civil war was the war against the north and the south. The south was using slaves and since Lincoln was an anti slave president he didn't want there to be slaves so he sent troops down to resolve the situation but it turned into a war. During the war Lincoln created the emancipation proclamation. This was a document that said that the confederate states had to free all slaves. Although the document didn't free all slaves for a while. The day the document was issued thousands of slaves were set free. The civil war ended with slaves being set free and the north winning.   During the ending of the civil war, an event occurred that shook the U.S. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by  [|John Wilkes Booth] and the ford theater on April 14, 1865. Wilkes had an original plan to kidnap Lincoln and use him as a bride to free confederate soldiers. But when Lincoln gave a speech on voting rights for black people, Wilkes changed his original plan, and came up with a plan to assassinate Lincoln instead. Wilkes, who was a spy for the confederates in the war, crept up to Lincoln booth and fired one shot at point blank range into Lincolns skull. He then fled and twelve days later was shot and killed. This led to many changes in America.

Lincolns years as a president changed America. He changed the views people have about slavery. He created the emancipation proclamation which freed all slaves. During the civil war he was assassinated but changed America more than any other president before him. He was killed for what he believed in but succeeded in ending slavery and accomplishing many things that he had planned for America. 