Abraham Lincoln

The Man Behind the Civil WarBy: Hannah Schanzer

The Lincoln Logs Years Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin

in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky His Grandpa shot by Indians when he was very young Abe’s Father was a carpenter Siblings, Sarah, Thomas( died as baby) 1816, the Lincolns moved to Indiana 1818, mom died 1819, father married, Sarah Bush Johnston 1828, made boat trip to New Orleans 1828, sister died in childbirth 1831, he left home for New Salem Illinois

I Love You, Mary Todd

Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd 1809-1865 1818-1882

Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace, "Tad"

1843-1926 1846-1850 1850-1862 1853-1871

Early Political Life 1832 Served briefly in the Black Hawk War

Ran for State Legislator of Illinois lost

1834 Was elected to the lower house for the first of four successive terms (until 1841) as a Whig

1836 Became Lawyer

1837 Stated that Springfield slavery was bad

Moved to became John Todd Stuart law partner

1847-1849

Server on term as house representative

The Guy with the Big Top Hat 1858,Lincoln ran for the senate

seat against Stephen Douglas and lost

Abe addressed a rally at the Cooper Union in New York

At republican national convention, he beat William H. Steward

Beat Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, and the Constitutional Union candidate John Bell and became president

Selected Seward as secretary of state, Salmon P. Chase as secretary of the treasury, and Edward Bates as attorney general as cabinet members

All the time he wore a big top hat

Shot Heard Round the World,Lets Start A Civil War! When Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, seven states

from the South had seceded form the Union to form the Confederacy

The seven states had seceded because of states rights, the northern stats (Union) did’nt want the southern states (Confederacy) to have slaves

Against the advice of his cabinet, Lincoln provisions to Fort Sumter, in Charleston South Carolina

Apr. 12, 1861, South Carolina fired on the fort, and thus began the American Civil War

Mister Lincoln’s Top Man

The President thought Ulysses S. Grant was the perfect military commander for the Union

He was tough and had what people called "four o'clock in the morning courage."

He became the General-in-Chief, taking control if the whole army, in 1864

Dear Abe, Grow Some Whiskers Abraham Lincolns chances of

becoming re elected, he thought were very slim

The North was tried with the war and just wanted it to end

The rival Democrat was a man named Gen. George B. McClellan who was a war hero, and a guy who would try and get peace at any cause

Lincoln ran for president with the slogan “Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

An eleven year old girl, named Grace Bedell, wrote a letter to him on October 15th 1860 urging him to grow a beard to help him in election

Lincoln responded, grew a beard and won the election

February 16th, 1861 when he headed for the White House, he stopped in Westfield, New York, where she lived, got off the train and gave her a big kiss

Please Spell, Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863 when the country was entering the third year of the civil war President Lincoln made one of this countries most important proclamation

The proclamation stated: "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free."

The statement means that all slaves in the South could become free

The states in the North who owned slaves (Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri) still could own slaves

The proclamation also said that the North would allow black men into the army

Gettysburg Address “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on

this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Gettysburg Address (Continued) These famous words were spoken by

President Lincoln The speech was in honor of the

solider that died in the battle of Gettysburg

Lincoln requested that the place that the battle was fought should become a national cemetery

Lincoln especially wanted that area to by a cemetery because that space was on Robert E. Lee property

He wrote it on the back of an envelope on the way to the place where he was speaking

Hooray, the North Wins the War! A man named General William T.

Sherman confronted President Lincoln with a dangerous and destructive plan

Sherman wanted to march through the South using the slash and burn method

Lincoln agreed and in the fall of 1864, thus began the merciless procession called Sherman’s March

All of the Confederate strong holds had fell under Sherman’s March, and the other forts were very weak

On May 26th 1865 the last battle of the civil war was fought, General Kirby Smith surrendered all Confederate forces West of the Mississippi

The North had won the war, the United States was one country once again

Death of Lincoln Lincoln was a great man, but many people

didn’t like his views on slavery On April 14th 1865 the President was going

see Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater with General Grant and his wife

The South had surrendered five days before

His wife complained of having a headache, and considered not going, but Lincoln in insisted on going

The security guard went across the street for a drink somewhere during the third act

Suddenly the door burst open and a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth pointed a derringer (a type of gun) at Lincoln’s head and shot

The great man who had lead the North the Civil war died the next morning

Thank You Abe

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