Matthew MatyjakowskiMrs. BojanowskiEnglish 1221 May 2012Abraham Lincoln's Impact on SocietyImagine coming home to relax and turning on the television. You turn to your favorite news channel and discover something horrible. Your President Barack Obama has been assassinated. In today's society we have the media to spread information to people as soon as it happens. Imagine how the people of the 19th century felt when they learned of the death of their president. What everyone thinks the nation's reaction was to the assassination of the President of the United States of America is a question many people would like to know the answer to. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of America. At the time he was also the first president to win the Republican Party elections. It gave the nation a different perspective on a new president. Lincoln revealed all of his goals he wanted to achieve as president before he was even voted into office. Without Abraham Lincoln taking office 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 they still hold him to this day. 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 from high school he ran for Congress but was never elected. Lincoln remained there and eventually took over as a member of the Whig Party in 1834. When Lincoln was elected he won the United States... mid-paper... back to how it was before him. set foot in the office. All the hard work that Abraham Lincoln put into the nation when he was president would come to an end when he was assassinated. Lincoln was a very powerful man and was good at what he did. Among all the other presidential complications, Abraham Lincoln had by far the most difficult decision he ever made as president of the United States, putting the Northern and Southern states of the United States at war with each other. The only reason this happened was because it was Lincoln's effort to end slavery in the South. This may be why John Wilkes Booth was murdered because he never wanted to see an end to slavery. The Civil War ended as soon as President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, being the first president to ever be assassinated (Public Broadcasting Station. American Experience).