Abraham Lincoln - Fidan, Thai, Viktoria

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AbrahamAbraham

LincolnLincoln

International High School at LafayetteInternational High School at Lafayette

Class JClass JAmerican HistoryAmerican History

Unit 4Unit 4 Civil War and ReconstructionCivil War and Reconstruction

Mr. JoelMr. Joel

Fidan, Thai, Viktoria.Fidan, Thai, Viktoria.


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Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

Life DatesLife Dates

Born: February 12, 1809 near Hodgenville Kentucky,

United States.

Died: April 15, 1865 Washington D.C

. He is 16thpresident of United States, and the first

president who was assassinated

(1860- 1865)


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Life FactsLife Facts His wife was called Mary Todd Lincoln, who was brought

up into a very wealthy family.

Had 4 children, Robert Todd, Edward, Willie, Tad. Only

Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood.

He was the tallest U.S president at 6ft 4 inches.

He ran a store in New Salem.

He was the first president to have a beard.

Lincoln was fond of pets, and owned horses, cats, dogs

and a turkey.


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PrePre--PresidencyPresidency

Before the election, he served briefly as a captain in the

Illinois militia during the Black hawk war alt though he

never saw combat.

Lincoln became an able and successful lawyer with a

reputation as a formidable adversary during cross-

examinations and closing arguments.

1834 he won election to the state legislature after a

bipartisan campaign, though, he ran as a Whig.


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Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnQuotationsQuotations

I believe this government can not endure, permanently

half slave and half free.(1842)

Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and

bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines

tends rather to increase than abate its evils.(1837)


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Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnPresidencyPresidency

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected as the

sixteenth president of the United States. He won over 4

people( Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge andJohn Bell) with 40% voice, for running to be the

president, 40% is just a small number.

He was the first Republican president, winning entirely on

the strength of his support in the North.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860,

seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate

States of America, and four more joined when hostilities

began between the North and South.


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Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnConnecting to UnitConnecting to Unit

Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War and

he wanted to reunite and rebuild the relationships between

North and South also he wanted to free the slaves.

The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order

issued by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil

War. This highlighted freedom of all slaves within any

state that did not submit to Union.

The Ten Percent Plan. It decreed that a state could be join

again into the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote

count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the

U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation.


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Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnClass QuestionClass Question

What was his job before he run for the Whig?

How is Abraham Lincoln connected with the civil war?

How he could free the slaves but still keep slavery in

some states?

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