Abraham Lincoln Life , work and achievements.

1. Abraham Lincoln
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2. President
Abraham Lincoln
was born near
Hodgenville,
Kentucky, on
February 12,
1809

3. He moved to Indiana in 1816
and lived there the rest of his
youth.
Lincoln himself stated that he
had about one year of formal
education. However, he was
taught by many different
individuals.
He loved to read and learn from
any books he could get his
hands on.
CHILDHOOD & EDUCATION

4. Father: Thomas Lincoln - farmer and carpenter
Mother: Nancy Hanks - died when Lincoln was nine. His
stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston, was very close to him.
Siblings: Sarah Grigsby was the only sibling to live to
maturity.
Wife: Mary Todd - grew up in relative wealth. Four of her
siblings fought for the South. She was considered mentally
unbalanced.
Children: Robert Todd - lawyer and diplomat; William
Wallace - the only president's child to die in the White
House, and Thomas "Tad" - died at 18.
FAMILY TIES

5. Abraham Lincoln's wife,
Mary Todd Lincoln, was
from Lexington, Kentucky.
She was one of the best-
educated women of her era,
and her support,
encouragement, and vast
political knowledge helped
Lincoln become our nation's
sixteenth president. The
Mary Todd Lincoln House
in Lexington is open for
tours. *

6. Artist's rendering of the Lincoln family.

7. Lincoln began his political
career in 1832 at age 23
with an unsuccessful
campaign for the Illinois
General Assembly as a
member of the Whig Party.
EARLY LIFE & CAREER

8. GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT

9. Into the Presidency
• Lincoln’s basic position on racial equality
changed little between the debates in 1858
and his accession to the presidency in 1861.
• He increasingly aligned his view with that
which he attributed to the founding fathers
and the Declaration of Independence, yet he
consistently distinguished economic rights
from political and social rights.

10. Into the Presidency
• The Civil War caused Lincoln to gently
began distancing himself from his earlier
disavowals of racial equality.
• For the first two years of the war, he made
it clear that the goal was the preservation
of the Union, not the eradication of
slavery.
• As the war proceeded, that goal allowed
him to justify more radical measures. The
Union would be helped if slaves in the
rebel states could defect to the Union side.

11. Into the Presidency
• In 1864 he wrote a letter to Albert Hodges,
in which he stated, “I am naturally anti-
slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is
wrong. I can not remember when I did not
so think, and feel. And yet I have never
understood that the Presidency conferred
upon me any unrestricted right to act
officially upon this judgment and feeling.”
• Lincoln’s own beliefs were not deemed
sufficient to justify his attacks on slavery;
only military necessity could do that.

12. 1860
Presidential election
On November 6, 1860,
Lincoln was elected as the
16th President of the United
States.
He was the first Republican
president, winning entirely on
the strength of his support in
the North:

13. 1862
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln met with his
cabinet on July 22,
1862 for the first
reading of a draft of
the Emancipation
Proclamation

14. 1863
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address The cemetery
was dedicated on November 19,
1863 . Lincoln spoke for
approximately two minutes.
Although he expressed
disappointment in the speech
initially, it has come to be regarded
as one of the greatest speeches in
U.S. history.

15. 1864
Presidential election
Lincoln won by more
than 400,000 popular
votes, partly as a result
of the recent Union
victory at the Battle of
Atlanta and was the first
president to be re-
elected.

16. 1865
ASSASSINATION
On April 14, 1865, John
Wilkes Booth, a famous
actor and Confederate
sympathizer, fatally shot
President Abraham Lincoln
at a play at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C.

17. Reward poster following Lincoln’s assassination

18. When Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C. on April 14, 1865, he was carrying two pairs of spectacles and a
lens polisher, a pocketknife, a watch fob, a linen handkerchief, and a
brown leather wallet containing a five-dollar Confederate note and
nine newspaper clippings.

19. Train engine that drew Lincoln’s funeral train

20. Lincoln's coffin, Museum of Funeral Customs

21. Lincoln's tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery

22. Lincoln Memorial University is a private four-year
co-educational liberal arts college located in
Harrogat, Tennessee

23. President Lincoln’s memory has been
honored in a variety of ways

24. Inside the Lincoln Memorial, a majestic statue sits in
repose with the following words inscribed . . .

25. In This Temple As in The Hearts Of The People For
Whom He saved The Union The Memory Of Abraham
Lincoln Is Enshrined Forever

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