HIST 0848 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Robert Todd Lincoln
3 Dec 2015
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The lincolns: took this ideology connections in 1860. Was a whig, who believed in upper social mobility republicans. Lincoln married a much wealthier woman, who had political. Joins the republican party and becomes the nominee of the party. Free soil, free labor, free land was his main ideology. Robert todd lincoln was the only son who survived past his 18th birthday and became politically involved. Robert lincoln went to harvard and then harvard law dropped out and joined the army. Robert inherited a lot of money from his family that had passed. Mary lincoln went insane after abraham died and she was a threat to the money she had taken in.
