How Abraham Lincoln Came to Power

How did Abraham Lincoln come to power? This video traces Lincoln's rise within the context of 19th century America, with a particular emphasis on the issue of slavery.

Associate Producers: Francisco Tolmasky, Philip Keighley

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0:00 Intro
4:15 Shortened Timeline
6:56 Context
13:15 Lincoln on the issues of the day + 1858 senate
20:41 The Opposition
25:46 The Nomination
28:26 Th General Election
32:14 The Transition

★ NOTE ON SOURCING IN CAPTIONS▼▼▼▼▼▼▼

I've added a citation system into my closed captioning. In order to be respectful to the hard of hearing members of this community, I've tried to make this as non-intrusive as possible., so as not to distract from reading.

At the end of a sentence with sourcing, something like this will appear:
"The sky is blue. The ocean is blue (17,89)."
In this example, the 1st number represents the source # from the source list in the description.
The 2nd number represents the page number, if the source is a book.

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"I'm back." - the most downplayed introduction since the 2003's "Ladies and gentlemen. We got him."

[williamcfox]

Good to be back! -- I stopped uploading because I needed a full reset of my relationship with YouTube.

You ever lose yourself in a project, and damn, it's still not even going that well? That was me with Dark Souls, but also with YouTube. My mental and physical health needed the long pause.

This video still has a fairly serious tone, but expect a little more 'chill' from me going forward, less pretension - I'm just gonna tell cool stories and see what happens. Might feel cute and tell a joke and delete later. Idk.

side note: I called William H. Seward, 'Henry' twice in this video. That's because we're friends and he told me to.

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A wonderful, well-researched video! Next time I'm at the Lincoln Memorial I'll know a lot more about the man

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