Abraham Lincoln rose from humble origins to become a great leader during the American Civil War. He led the North to preserve the Union and began the process of emancipating slaves through the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's key contributions included freeing slaves in Confederate states, turning the war's focus to human freedom, and helping abolish slavery nationwide through the 13th Amendment. He set an example of honesty, leadership, and character as president before being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865.

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Abraham
Lincoln
Quinton Fisher
APUSH
5/22/13
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

2.  Born in a one-room log cabin
 Mother died when he was only nine
 His sister died during birth
 Three out of four of his children died
 Humble origins to great power
Lincoln’s Bio

3.  Began the process of the
Emancipation Proclamation
 Leader in preserving the Union
during the Civil War
 Example of
honesty, leadership, and
character
Three Main Contributions
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

4.  After the Battle of Antietam in
Maryland, declared that all slaves
in the Confederate states were free
 “Began as a fight to preserve the
nation into a battle for human
freedom”
1, 3,
Slaves are Freeeee!

5.  The 13th Amendment
officially abolished slavery
in ALL of the United
States.
 Ratified on Dec. 6, 1865
 Racism would not really
end until the 1960s, after
the Civil Rights Movement
So why is this important?

6.  Lincoln was the leader of the
North in the Civil War
 Causes were:
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 “Bleeding Kansas”
Preserving the Union
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it
will be because we destroyed ourselves.
John Brown’s raid at Harper’s
Ferry in 1859 divided the North
and South even more.
 Three months after Lincoln’s election.
 South Carolina, Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
and Texas.

7.  Protected the US
from dividing
 Turned the war from
being about “saving
the nation” to about
freeing the slaves
This is important
because…?
The paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or
destroy slavery

8. Being a good daddy
Showed qualities of
being a good
president set the
example for all
presidents to follow

9.  Lincoln was shot by
James Wilkes Booth
 April 15, 1865
 First president to be
killed in the United
States.
SHOT! ASSASSINATED!
DEAD!

10.  Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I have a dream” speech on
August 28, 1963
 1911, function began
Lincoln Memorial
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.