Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States was 16, Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous and impressive political figure who had acquired United States - or any other country, too. Well, if the case, because what he was not included in the list of the main sequence? Is liberation 3,500,000 villein was not a great work?
Quite so. However, when we look back, will be seen that
the strength of the whole world is struggling unbearable by any power to eliminate all forms of slavery. Many countries have abolished slavery system even before Lincoln's reign, and within fifty-five years after his death, most countries do so. Most can be appreciated from the work of Lincoln is to accelerate the process in a country, the United States.

However, the services of Lincoln's work is to maintain the unity of the largest United States faced the secession efforts the states south of the country. For this act alone he deserves inclusion in this book is a chronological list.

However, through the election of Lincoln is so because the separation of the states south of it. And not too likely to fail to win the North of civil war if people other than Lincoln became president. And above all, the North opened the battle with the superior of capital judging from the point of the population and also greater in the industry.

Even if the North did not win the war, on the whole course of history will not experience major changes. Link language, religion, culture and trade between North and South was so close they will come together too. If the split lasted for twenty years, or put, fifty years, it was only a minor event in world history. (Proper note that even without the South, the United States today remains the fourth largest country in the world's population, and will continue to be the country's most prominent industries).

Does this mean that Lincoln does not figure at all important? Not at all. His career has a deep influence to millions of people in one generation. However, he had equal importance as the influence Mahavira continued for centuries. Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.