ABRAHAM LINCOLN By George Sullivan Lincoln was born
ABRAHAM LINCOLN • By George Sullivan Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809 The 16 th president of the United States The greatest American president Freedom Theme & Liberty Abraham Lincoln, his hand pen, Abraham Lincoln is my name He will be good, but God knows when. And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both haste and speed And left it here for fools to read.
LINCOLN THE LAWYER Fre edo m Theme & • Lincoln's mother died in 1818 • His sister died in 1818 Lib e rty Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1837 and became a partner in a law firm there. • Lincoln and Herndon had a long and very successful partnership Lincoln married with Mary Lincoln “Give our clients to understand that the election of a President makes no change in the firm of Lincoln & Herndon. ”
TURNING POINT “Honest Abe” B William Henry Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner. A D N E W Congress had passed the Kansas. Nebraska Act Lincoln put all of S The law office of Lincoln & Herndon in Springfield, Illinois. his energy into his work as a lawyer.
PEOPLE’S THE On his visit to New York in February 1860, the fifty-one -year-old Lincoln posed for his photograph. He appears tall and confident. The pose became known as Lincoln's “Cooper Union” photograph. CHOICE In the p residential election of 1860, Hannibal Hamlin, a Senator from Maine, ran as Lincoln's vice president. Lincoln’s great speech “To this place and the kindness of these people, I owe every thing. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than (George Washington faced)… I bid you affectionate farewell. ”
Gettysburg Address This studio photograph of Lincoln was taken on November 8, 1863, just ten days before he spoke at Gettysburg “Now we are engaged in a The Union great civil war, testing victory at whether that nation or any Gettysburg was nation so conceived and so a turning point dedicated can long endure. in the war. 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 this nation Most African Americans liked the might live. It Is altogether idea of being able to fitting and proper that we enlist in the Union should do this. ”
“I Know I’m In Danger “The president is shot!” John Wilkes Booth was the president’s assassin. Born in Maryland, he was a wellknown actor of the time. Thousands watch as Lincoln’s funeral procession makes its way up Broadway in New York City.
One of the most important is the Lincoln National Monument. After Lincoln’s death, artists often pictured him with George Washington had been named the “father of our country. ” Lincoln was called the nation’s “savior. ” This sculpted image of Lincoln by Victor D. Brenner was used in designing the Lincoln cent.
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