Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Dominique Bailey
Table of Contents
Page 3 – Introduction
Page 4 – Early Life
Page 5 – Law Career
Page 6 – Entering Politics
Page 7 – Elected President
Page 8 – Emancipation Proclamation - Civil War
Page 9 – Reconstruction - Assassination
Page 10 – Conclusion
Page 11 – Bibliography
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Introduction
Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes and one of its sharpest political minds. Born into frontier obscurity and raised in a log cabin, Lincoln rose quickly in society from a backwoods rail-splitter to a militia captain in the Blackhawk War. Later, his law career led him into politics and he entered the public spotlight in a U.S. Senate race that centered on the future of slavery in America. Lincoln went on to become the first Republican president and his election led to Southern secession and the Civil War. A shrewd politician, Lincoln managed to lead the North to victory and laid the foundation for the abolition of slavery, but he would not live to see his country reunited. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater just days after the end of the war.
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Early Life
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. When young Abraham was 9 years old his mother died of Tremetol (milk sickness) at age 34 and the event was devastating on him. Abraham then grew less fond of his father after his mother died and immediately turned to house labor work to avoid him. A few months after Nancy’s death, Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky widow with three children of her own and an affectionate woman with
Dominique Bailey
Table of Contents
Page 3 – Introduction
Page 4 – Early Life
Page 5 – Law Career
Page 6 – Entering Politics
Page 7 – Elected President
Page 8 – Emancipation Proclamation - Civil War
Page 9 – Reconstruction - Assassination
Page 10 – Conclusion
Page 11 – Bibliography
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Introduction
Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes and one of its sharpest political minds. Born into frontier obscurity and raised in a log cabin, Lincoln rose quickly in society from a backwoods rail-splitter to a militia captain in the Blackhawk War. Later, his law career led him into politics and he entered the public spotlight in a U.S. Senate race that centered on the future of slavery in America. Lincoln went on to become the first Republican president and his election led to Southern secession and the Civil War. A shrewd politician, Lincoln managed to lead the North to victory and laid the foundation for the abolition of slavery, but he would not live to see his country reunited. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater just days after the end of the war.
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Early Life
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. When young Abraham was 9 years old his mother died of Tremetol (milk sickness) at age 34 and the event was devastating on him. Abraham then grew less fond of his father after his mother died and immediately turned to house labor work to avoid him. A few months after Nancy’s death, Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky widow with three children of her own and an affectionate woman with
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