The Life of Abraham Lincoln

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
By Josh Dion
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Introduction

• Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809
• He was born at Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky
• He married Mary Todd Lincoln on November 4th,
  1842
• He died April 14th, 1865
• Buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield,
  Illinois
• He had 4 children Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward
  Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and
  Thomas Lincoln

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The Lincoln Children

• 3 out of 4 Lincoln children died from rare
  diseases
• Robert Todd Lincoln was the only one who died of
  old age when he was 82 on July 26, 1926
• Edward Baker Lincoln died at the age of 4 of
  pulmonary tuberculosis
• William Wallace Lincoln died when he was 11
  because of typhoid fever
• Thomas Lincoln died at the age of 18 of
  tuberculosis
• Abraham Lincoln and his wife had a very hard life
  with 3 of their children dying, but they managed
  to live pretty well afterwards

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Social Contribution

• Lincoln made it so no one could trade
  slaves into the U.S. as an attempt to get rid of
  slavery. He then issued an Emancipation
  Proclamation which said all slaves are now and
  forever free. Lincoln was completely against
  slavery. Abraham Lincoln ended slavery for the
  U.S!

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Childhood

• Lincoln was born February 12, 1809
• He moved to India in 1816
• His mother died when he was only 9
• He had to walk around barefoot because his family
  couldnt afford shoes
• He then got very close to his stepmom, Sarah Bush
  Johnston
• She was always urging him to read so he could be
  smart
• Good thing too because Lincoln loved to read and
  learn from any books he could get his hands on

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Adolescence

• In 1831 Lincolns father moved to Coles Country,
  Illinois
• Instead of going with him, Lincoln went out on
  his own so he could become a man
• So he canoed down the Sangamon River to the
  village of New Salem, Mass.
• Once he got there, he got hired by a man named
  Denton Offutt
• He only went to school for 18 months, then he
  self-educated himself

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Adulthood

• Lincoln didnt believe in violence
• He believed everything could be solved by using
  words
• Unfortunately, not many people agreed with his
  decisions
• There was many people who wanted him dead because
  he was trying to end slavery
• A man named John Wilkes Booth sneaked up behind
  him and shot him with a gun
• After he died, they built a famous monument of
  him called the Lincoln Memorial

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Adulthood (as a president)

• Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president on
  November 6, 1860
• He lead a huge crisis called the Civil War
  (1861-1865)
• He was a great politician with persuasion and
  humor
• When Lincoln took a second oath of office, the
  war was ending
• He worked effortlessly for rebuilding our nation
  after the civil war
• He got assassinated while he was president as he
  watched a play at Fords Theatre, Washington, DC

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Famous Quotes

• A drop of honey catches more than a gallon of
  gal.
• Die when I may, I want it said of me that I
  plucked a weed and planted a flower wherever I
  thought a flower would grow
• Character is like a tree, reputation like a
  shadow, which means the shadow is what we think
  of it, the tree is the real thing

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President Slide

• Thomas Jefferson was the president when Abraham
  Lincoln was born
• Jefferson wrote some of the Declaration of
  Independence
• Many say he was a Revolutionary Leader

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Interview

• If I could ask Abraham Lincoln 3 questions,
  they would be
• Are you impressed with the progress of the U.S.
  since 1865?
• What would you change about the U.S. right now?
• Why do you always wear that top hat?

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