1. THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN By : Kelly Locklear & Jadyn Locklear Mrs. Garcie Locklear’s Homeroom 4 th Period April 2, 2015

2. INTRO Abraham Lincoln was the 16 th president of the United States. He is known as one of the greatest U.S. presidents. But before I tell you about his presidential life, let me tell you about his life before!

3. CHILDHOOD Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. His mother and Father’s names were Thomas and Nancy Lincoln He had an older sister named Sarah that often took care of him. He also had a younger brother named Thomas but sadly died in infancy. Due to the land dispute, the Lincoln’s were forced from Kentucky to Perry County, Indiana in 1817, where the family stayed on public land to earn a living in a rough shelter, hunting meat on a small piece of land. Later his mother died of “ Milk Sickness” in 1818 (a disease caused by white snakeroot, which contains a deadly alcohol). Once his mother died, his father married a woman from Kentucky named Sarah Bush. Abraham didn’t like her at first but then grew fond of her. She brought her three children along to live with them.

4. Nancy Thomas Sarah

5. AS A BOY… Lincoln was very independent at some things. They did not live close to a school, so Abraham taught himself how to read. Sarah noticed how Abraham loved to read and encouraged him to do it more often. He read every book he could get his hands on. Later on when Abe was about 20, he witnessed the horror of slavery and the auctions. He wanted to change this.

6. ON HIS OWN In March, 1830 the family migrated to Macon County, Illinois. When the family moved again to Coles County, Lincoln at the age of 22 did his own thing, making a living in manual labor. Abe was a tall man at 6’ 4”, was rawboned and lanky, but was muscular and physically strong. In 1832, the Black Hawk War broke out, and the volunteers in the area voted to have Lincoln to be there captain. Later on in 1834, he was elected to be the state legislature of Illinois. He wasn’t there for long because he received his law license on September 9, 1836. Soon he met and fell in love with Anne Rutledge. But before he could propose, an illness was going around and she died at the age of only 22.

7. A NEW ROAD Abe served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. The time he had in term was speaking against the Mexican- American War and supporting Zachary Taylor for president in 1848. Talking about the war the way he did made him unpopular back home. About a year after Anne Rutledge died, Abe met Mary Owens. The two were fine until Lincoln called off the match and he met Mary Todd. She was active and smart, but many people couldn’t find her as attractive, sometimes Lincoln couldn’t find it either. The couple broke apart. Soon they saw each other again at a social gathering and found love again. They married and had four sons, William Wallace Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, and Edward Baker Lincoln.

8. Abe and his family

9. DID YOU KNOW… That there are no more descendants of Abraham Lincoln today? Even though he and his wife produced four sons, three of them died before the age of twenty. Robert was the only one who survived to adulthood.

10. ELECTED PRESIDENT In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed individual states and territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. Two years later, Lincoln joined the Republican Party. In 1857, the Supreme Court issued it’s controversial decision Scott v. Sanford, declaring “African Americans were not citizens and had no inherent rights.” Even though Lincoln thought that African Americans were not at all equal to whites, he believed the Americans founders were intended that all men were created with certain rights. Lincoln challenged senator Stephen Douglas for his seat. In the nomination acceptance speech, he criticized Douglas, the Supreme Court, and president Buchanan for promoting slavery. At the end of the election, they picked Lincoln. But the exposure vaulted Lincoln into national politics. Two years later Illinois organized a campaign for Abraham Lincoln to run for president. He had a national reputation that won him the election in 1960.

11. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. It was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abe on January 1, 1863. It declared that “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” But it only applied to states designated in being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already had come under Union control.

13. ASSASSINATION On April 14, 1865 Lincoln died. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. He was taken from the theater and was laid in a nearby Petersen House and was there nine hours before he died the next morning. With this Andrew Johnson became president.

15. REFERENCES http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540#law-career https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/abrahamlincoln www.timetoast.com/timelines/18508 www.historynet.com/emancipation-proclamation www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination

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