Matthew MatyjakowskiMrs. BojanowskiEnglish 12May 21, 2012Abraham Lincoln's impact on societyImagine coming home to relax and turn on your television. You turn to your favorite news channel and discover something horrible. Your President Barack Obama was assassinated. In today's society, we have media to get information to people as soon as it happens. Imagine how the people of eighteen hundred felt when they learned of the death of their president. What do you think was the nation's reaction to the assassination of the President of the United States of America? This is a question that many people would like to know the answer to. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. At the time, he was also the first president to win elections for the Republican Party. He gave the nation a different view of the new president. Lincoln knew all the goals he wanted to achieve as president before he was even elected. Without Abraham Lincoln coming to power, who knows what society would be like today? Many believe he was one of, if not the best president this nation has ever had, and still support him today. Lincoln made strong, strategic, and very complicated decisions to make our country a better place to live (Public Broadcasting Station. American Experience). Abraham Lincoln was part of the Republican Party. He joined the Republican Party after a term in Congress from 1848 to 1849. Lincoln studied law in the Illinois State Legislature. After graduating, he ran for Congress but was never elected. Lincoln stayed put and eventually took over the position within the Whig Party in 1834. When Lincoln was elected, he won the United States...... middle of paper ...... return to this that he was before he set foot in the office. All of the hard work that Abraham Lincoln put into the nation while he was president would come to an end when he was assassinated. Lincoln was a very powerful man and good at what he did. Of all the other presidential complications, Abraham Lincoln had by far the most difficult decision to make as President of the United States in bringing the Northern and Southern states of the United States to war. The only reason this happened was because Lincoln was working to end slavery in the South. Perhaps this is why John Wilkes Booth was murdered because he never wanted to see the end of slavery. The Civil War ended as soon as President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, being the first president to be assassinated (Public Broadcasting Station. American Experience).