Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President, was born on this day, Feb.12 in 1809.
He died in office upon his assassination. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War.
LINCOLN :
SIGNED THE FIRST OF THE HOMESTEAD ACTS, ALLOWING POOR PEOPLE TO OBTAIN LAND and THE MORRILL LAND-GRANT ACT WHICH LED TO CREATION OF NUMEROUS UNIVERSITIES
ESTABLISHED THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and THE US NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM.
WAS BEHIND THE PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF INCOME TAX IN US
ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WHICH LED TO ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN US
LED THE UNION TO VICTORY IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
and
LAID THE STEPPING STONE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF U. S.
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