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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States who led the country during the American Civil War. He was born in 1809 in Kentucky and grew up in Indiana. Lincoln had little formal education but was a voracious self-learner. He worked various jobs including as a postmaster and surveyor before becoming a lawyer in Illinois. Lincoln was elected to the presidency in 1860 on the Republican ticket and sought to preserve the Union in the face of secession by southern states. During his presidency, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln1861-1865
BirthplaceFebruary 12, 1809Hardin County, Kentucky
FamilySon of Kentucky frontiersmanBoth parents born in VirginiaFather moved from KY to Indiana when he was 8Mother died when he was 10Married Mary ToddHad 4 boys, only one of whom lived to maturity
No Formal EducationMade extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge“Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.”
“His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest”Worked on a farmSplit rails for fencesKeeping store at New Salem, Illinois Captain in the Black Hawk WarSpent 8 years in the Illinois legislature
1858Ran against Stephen A. Douglas for SenatorHe lost but his debates gained him a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860
First Inaugural Address“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”
Secession ILLEGALWilling to use force to defend Federal law and the Union
Abraham Lincoln
President LincolnBuilt the Republican Party into a strong national organizationRallied most northern Democrats to the Union causeJan. 1, 1863 – issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish for the earth.”- Gettysburg Address
Re-election in 1864Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war
Second Inaugural Address“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…”
April 14, 1865 Good Friday Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth who somehow thought he was helping the South.

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Abraham Lincoln

  • 4. FamilySon of Kentucky frontiersmanBoth parents born in VirginiaFather moved from KY to Indiana when he was 8Mother died when he was 10Married Mary ToddHad 4 boys, only one of whom lived to maturity
  • 5. No Formal EducationMade extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge“Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.”
  • 6. “His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest”Worked on a farmSplit rails for fencesKeeping store at New Salem, Illinois Captain in the Black Hawk WarSpent 8 years in the Illinois legislature
  • 7. 1858Ran against Stephen A. Douglas for SenatorHe lost but his debates gained him a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860
  • 8. First Inaugural Address“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”
  • 9. Secession ILLEGALWilling to use force to defend Federal law and the Union
  • 11. President LincolnBuilt the Republican Party into a strong national organizationRallied most northern Democrats to the Union causeJan. 1, 1863 – issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  • 12. Civil War “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish for the earth.”- Gettysburg Address
  • 13. Re-election in 1864Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war
  • 14. Second Inaugural Address“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…”
  • 15. April 14, 1865 Good Friday Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth who somehow thought he was helping the South.

Editor's Notes

  • #9: Warning to the South
  • #11: Called on the states for 75,000 volunteers when Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrenderFour more slave states joined the ConfederacyCivil War had begun
  • #16: With Lincoln’s death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died