Military
Lincoln's guiding rule in military leadership: "My policy is to have ____"
What is no policy
Skilled in his ability to control his emotions, Lincoln was known to sit down and write letters he referred to as this temperature, later setting them aside and not sending them to the individual with which he was dealing with.
What is "hot" or what are "hot letters"
Lincoln's most well-known nickname, besides "Honest Abe"
What is '"the Great Emancipator"?
Though it had little effect at the time, this held great significance as a symbol in the Civil War, indicating that the Lincoln government held freedom to reunion as a central aim of the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's height
What is "six foot four"
Frustrated by the slowness of this second general of the Union, Lincoln demoted him to command the Army of the Potomac alone, claiming "he has the slows"
Who is George B. McClellan
As Lincoln grew older, and after he became president and won the Civil War, he developed a deeper understanding with his religion and the necessity of God in his life. He came to view himself with this nickname, and to view all history as "God's enterprise."
What is an "instrument of Providence"
After winning re-election and the war, Lincoln showed his capacity to communicate his goals and vision for the future by focusing on bringing the country together, instead of his own achievements, in this large-scale speech.
What is "his second inaugural address"
Lincoln refused to wait for this to be over to push the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, and using his resources of patronage and persuasion, he managed to get the necessary two-thirds vote needed to send to states for ratification.
What is "lame-duck session"
Lincoln was the first president to use this technological novelty of the time
What is the telegraph
Exhibiting his humility as a leader, Lincoln sent a message to this future Union general after his win with the Vicksburg Campaign, stating he "feared it was a mistake," and "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right, and I was wrong."
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln was very fond of this well-known poet and writer, often using his allusions and discussing problems in the context of the writer's texts and themes.
Who is Shakespeare
According to historian Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln took these kinds of "baths" by spending copious amounts of time talking with the public, holding public receptions, and making connections with his troops by visiting them on the battlefields and hospitals, exemplifying the importance he placed on being a president of the people.
What are "public opinion baths"
Stating that slavery was the cause of the Civil War rebellion, Lincoln described his Emancipation Proclamation as aiming a "death blow at the gigantic evil" of slavery in a plank in the 1864 platform of this political body.
What is "the Republican National Committee"
Lincoln's mother was killed by this poisoned drink
What is milk
Historians claim Lincoln's lack of this lead him to be able to better apply practical insight, common sense, and military genius to the winning of the Civil War.
What is military training
The woman who encouraged Abe's education and took his side in arguments against his father, who Abe didn't like very much
Who is Lincoln's step-mother
Responding to concerns expressed by his friends about the actions of his Cabinet members, Lincoln showed his ability to share this by stating "the path to success and ambition is broad enough for two."
What is "credit" or "success"
Lincoln stated that his "paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery" when the New York Tribune appealed to him to enforce these Congressional acts in 1862.
What are "the confiscation acts"?
Lincoln was shot on this day of Catholic commemoration.
What is Good Friday
Increasing the effectiveness of his armies year by year, Lincoln pioneered in the creation of this, an organzation for amassing all the energies and resources of a people in the grand strategy of total war.
What is "high command"
After losing his campaign for the Illinois state legislature, Lincoln focused his energy on studying law on his own, arguing cases before the local justice of the peace even before passing this major test in 1836
What is the bar exam
French writer Adolph Pineton wrote that Lincoln has this in common with other politicians, as he was "ever on the track of what seems to them to be popular caprice. He well understood that he was the people's agent, and that his duty obliged him to stand by his principal."
What is "nothing"
In his Special Message to Congress of July 4th, 1861, Lincoln stated "must a government, of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people or too weak to maintain its own existence?" Lincoln understood that the most essential feature of constitutional leadership is this quality.
What is "self-restraint"
At his second inauguration, Lincoln was photographed with this man, who would prove highly relevant later in his life.
Who is John Wilkes Booth