Abraham Lincoln Statue

The statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, is on the grounds of the elementary school that bears his name, on the sunny street in Old San Juan.The figure of Abraham Lincoln is celebrated in his native land, the United States, in Puerto Rico, and in other parts of the world, by the manager of the Emancipation Proclamation.Lincoln signed the document declaring all slaves of the Confederate states free on January 1, 1863. The proclamation provoked discontent in four of the Confederate states and the confrontation between the north and the south that led to the Civil War was born, whose outcome led to what is later known as the United States."On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was murdered at the Ford Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who was of the opinion that he was helping the South." The opposite was the result, since, with the death of Lincoln, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died, "according to the official website of the White House.