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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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"I am naturally anti- slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel"

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"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." - Abraham Lincoln

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"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel."

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"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel."

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Surveyor, Postmaster, Lawyer

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they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity

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Gives a speech against war policy regarding Mexico. "I know nothing that I can here do in the matter." - Abraham Lincoln to Samuel D. Marshall

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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Abraham Lincoln was known as "Honest Abe” as a young man – before he became a lawyer or a politician. The name stuck. In 1859 when he ran for president the nickname became his campaign slogan.

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Lincoln is elected to the Illinois General Assembly.

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As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.

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As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.

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Abraham Lincoln argued a case in front of the United States Supreme Court—and lost.

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand"

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A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand | Speech 10

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Uploaded by Abe Lincoln Speaks on 2016-08-28.

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Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:

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Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:

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"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."

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Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln (December 13, 1788 - April 12, 1869) was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of President of the United AL.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only president in American history to hold a patent.

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The death of his mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln

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When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

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Lincoln's received a patent for a "device to buoy vessels over shoals." Lincoln was the only President of the United States to hold a patent.

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As a young man, Abraham Lincoln took a boatload of merchandise down the Mississippi River from New Salem to New Orleans. At one point the boat slid onto a dam and was set free only after heroic efforts. In later years, while traveling on the Great Lakes, Lincoln's ship ran a foul of a sandbar.

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Abraham Lincoln spent 14 of his most formative years-from age 7 to 21-in Southern Indiana. (Dec 1816)

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Ran for Senator in 1858 but lost to Stephen Douglas despite winning the popular vote.

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Ran for Senator in 1858 but lost to Stephen Douglas despite winning the popular vote.

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Abraham Lincoln was the president during the Civil War.

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Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address

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Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address

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"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."

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January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery

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January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery

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Wins election to Illinois House of Representatives

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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

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his brother died during infancy
his mother died when he was 9 years old

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had four sons, only Robert lived to adulthood 

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had four sons, only Robert lived to adulthood 

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Son of a Kentucky Frontiersman, her mother died in his tenth year.

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Son of a Kentucky Frontiersman, her mother died in his tenth year.

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Struggled to Survive

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The Success of Abraham Lincoln Today he is known as one of the greatest American presidents, but at the time of his election no one would have predicted Lincoln's success.

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The Success of Abraham Lincoln Today he is known as one of the greatest American presidents, but at the time of his election no one would have predicted Lincoln's success.

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Takes seat in U.S House of Representatives

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Freed all of the slaves in the rebellious states but left those in the border states (loyal to the union) in bondage.

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He won every free state except New Jersey.

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He was born in Hardy County, Kentucky.
in February 12, 1809

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.

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"On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C" (Abrahan Lincoln's Assasination).

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On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838 into a family of noted actors. Booth would eventually take the stage himself, appearing in 1855 in Shakespeare's Richard III in Baltimore.

Despite his Confederate sympathies, Booth remained in the North during the Civil War, pursuing a successful career as an actor. But as the war entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital.

On March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, Abraham Lincoln failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait, foiling their planned abduction. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces, and on April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. Growing desperate, Booth came up with an even more sinister plan to save the Confederacy.

Did you know? The search for John Wilkes Booth was one of the largest manhunts in history, with 10,000 federal troops, detectives and police tracking down the assassin.

Lincoln at Ford's Theatre

Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene's acclaimed performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, Booth masterminded a plan even more diabolical than kidnapping.

He and his co-conspirators believed the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward -the president and two of his possible successors-would throw the U.S. government into disarray.

The Lincolns arrived late for the comedy, but the president was reportedly in a fine mood and laughed heartily during the production. Lincoln occupied a private box above the stage with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, a young army officer named Henry Rathbone and Rathbone's fiancé, Clara Harris, the daughter of New York Senator Ira Harris.

The Lincoln Assassination

At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer pistol into the back of Lincoln's head. After stabbing Rathbone, who immediately rushed at him, in the shoulder, Booth leapt onto the stage and shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis!" ("Thus ever to tyrants!"-the Virginia state motto).

At first, the crowd interpreted the unfolding drama as part of the production, but a scream from the first lady told them otherwise. Although Booth broke his leg in the fall, he managed to leave the theater and escape from Washington on horseback.

A 23-year-old doctor named Charles Leale was in the audience and hastened to the presidential box immediately upon hearing the shot and Mary Lincoln's scream. He found the president slumped in his chair, paralyzed and struggling to breathe.

Several soldiers carried Lincoln to a boardinghouse across the street and placed him on a bed. When the surgeon general arrived at the house, he concluded that Lincoln could not be saved and would probably die during the night.

Lincoln's Death and Autopsy

Vice President Andrew Johnson, members of Lincoln's cabinet and several of his closest friends stood vigil by the president's bedside in the boardinghouse. The first lady lay on a bed in an adjoining room with her eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, at her side, overwhelmed with shock and grief.

Finally, Lincoln was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, at the age of 56.

The president's body was placed in a temporary coffin, draped with a flag and escorted by armed cavalry to the White House, where surgeons conducted a thorough autopsy. During the autopsy, Mary Lincoln sent the surgeons a note requesting that they clip a lock of Lincoln's hair for her.

Edward Curtis, an Army surgeon in attendance, later described the scene, recounting that a bullet clattered into a waiting basin during the doctors' removal of Lincoln's brain. He wrote that the team stopped to stare at the offending bullet, "the cause of such mighty changes in the world's history as we may perhaps never realize."

A Nation Mourns

News of the president's death traveled quickly, and by the end of the day flags across the country flew at half-mast, businesses were closed and people who had recently rejoiced at the end of the Civil War now reeled from Lincoln's shocking assassination.

On April 18, Lincoln's body was carried to the Capitol rotunda to lay in state on a catafalque. Three days later, his remains were boarded onto a train that conveyed him to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived before becoming president.

Tens of thousands of Americans lined the railroad route and paid their respects to their fallen leader during the train's solemn progression through the North. Lincoln and his son, William Wallace Lincoln ("Willie"), who died in the White House of typhoid fever in 1862, were interred on May 4, 1865, at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Springfield. Mary Todd Lincoln was so devastated that she took to her bed for weeks and missed the funeral. She was soon outcast from society for her vocal grief.

John Wilkes Booth Flees

As the nation mourned, Union soldiers were hot on the trail of John Wilkes Booth, who many in the audience had immediately recognized. After fleeing the capital, he and an accomplice, David Herold, made their way across the Anacostia River and headed toward southern Maryland.

The pair stopped at the home of Samuel Mudd, a doctor who treated Booth's broken leg. (Mudd's actions earned him a life sentence that was later commuted.) They then sought refuge from Thomas A. Jones, a Confederate agent, before securing a boat to row across the Potomac to Virginia.

On April 26, Union troops surrounded the Virginia barn where Booth and Herold were hiding out and set fire to it, hoping to flush the fugitives out. Herold surrendered but Booth remained inside. As the blaze intensified, a sergeant shot Booth in the neck, allegedly because the assassin had raised his gun as if to shoot.

Carried out of the building alive, Booth lingered for three hours before gazing at his hands and uttering his last words: "Useless, useless."

Four of Booth's co-conspirators were convicted for their part in the assassination and executed by hanging on July 7, 1865. They included David Herold and Mary Surratt, the first woman put to death by the federal government, whose boardinghouse had served as a meeting place for the would-be kidnappers.

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Abraham Lincoln was married to Mary Todd Lincoln from 1842 to 1865

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February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, KY

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Lincoln wins the presidency. He won with 180 electoral votes.

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Abraham Lincoln delivers his second inaugural address as portrayed by actor Walter Trumbull.