Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
Explanation:
Lincoln was born in poverty in a log cabin and
was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana .
He was self-educated and became a lawyer,
Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator , and
U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849 he
returned to his law practice but became vexed
by the opening of additional lands to slavery as
a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Act . He
reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in
the new Republican Party and he reached a
national audience in the 1858 debates against
Stephen Douglas . Lincoln ran for President in
1860, sweeping the North in victory. Pro-slavery
elements in the South equated his success with
the North's rejection of their right to practice
slavery, and southern states began seceding
from the union . To secure its independence, the
new Confederate States of America fired on Fort
Sumter , a U.S. fort in the South, and Lincoln
called up forces to suppress the rebellion and
restore the Union.
