Abraham Lincoln worked with his secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, to figure out how to keep the government running during the Civil War. The Way Out…
President Lincoln and Republicans in Congress recognized that preserving America’s credit was the key to financing the Civil War, and therefore to the government’s survival.
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. He led the nation through the bloody conflict and declared all enslaved people free under the Emancipation Proclamation. He was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
The Ohio state legislature is poised to pass legislation that would challenge the dominance of liberal ideas at two of the state's major public universities by establishing a pair of independent centers focused on civics.