帮我找一篇关于美国总统林肯的英文详细介绍

帮我找一篇关于美国总统林肯的英文详细介绍

Abraham Lincoln (February 12,1809 – April 15,1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States,March 4,1861 to April 15,1865.As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states,he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.During his term,he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery,issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.Lincoln's leadership qualities were evident in his close supervision of the victorious war effort,especially in his selection of Ulysses S.Grant and other top generals.Historians conclude that he handled the factions of the Republican Party brilliantly by bringing its leaders into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate.In crisis management,he defused a war scare with the United Kingdom (1861),he outmaneuvered the Confederacy and took control of the border slave states in 1861 – 1862,and he managed his own landslide reelection in the 1864 presidential election.Antiwar "Copperheads" criticized him for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue.In contrast,the Radical Republicans,a strongly Abolitionist faction of the Republican Party,criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery.Yet despite his detractors,Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through the powerful rhetoric of his messages and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is remembered as a prime example of this.At the close of the war,Lincoln took a moderate view of Reconstruction,seeking to speedily re-unite the nati 查看原帖