Abraham Lincoln

1. Abraham Lincoln A Civil Rights leader !!! By: Alexander Alexander

2. Introduction In 1834, Lincoln was elected to the state legislature, in which he served four successive terms and achieved prominence as a Whig. In 1836 he obtained his license as an attorney, and the next year he moved to Springfield, where he became a law partner of John T. Stuart. Lincoln's practice steadily increased. That first partnership was succeeded by others, with Stephen T. Logan and then with William H. Herndon, who was later to be Lincoln's biographer. Lincoln displayed great ability in law, a ready grasp of argument, and sincerity, color, and lucidity of speech. In 1842 he married Mary Todd after a troubled courtship. He continued his interest in politics and entered on the national scene by serving one term in Congress. He remained obscure, however, and his attacks as a Whig on the motives behind the Mexican War (though he voted for war supplies) seemed unpatriotic to his constituents, so he lost popularity at home. Lincoln worked hard for the election of the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, in 1848, but when he was not rewarded with the office he desired—Commissioner of the General Land Office—he decided to retire from politics and return to the practice of law http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0859296.html

3. A-America Lincoln was born and raised in America and I don’t think he ever left here.

4. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/WILLIE.JPG B-Birth "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all." http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln/

5. C-Congress Abraham Lincoln was an important part of congress before, during, and after his presidency. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/11/opinion/disunion_cabinet/disunion_cabinet-jumbo-v2.jpg

6. D-Dollar Lincoln is on the $5 bill because he was an important person in American history. http://www.coolfunnycomments.com/img/celebrities/019.jpg http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_1210x1210/0/6cc/5-dollar-bill-6cc7dd.jpg

7. E-Emancipation Proclamation Whereas on the 22d day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the president of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do not act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States. "Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194062.html

8. F-Four Score & seven years ago “Four Score & seven years ago”, is what Abraham Lincoln said to start off his 3 minuet speech.

9. G-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. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0820683.html

10. H-Honest Abe Abraham Lincoln is not called “Honest Abe”, for nothing. He is called that for his honesty& trustworthiness. http://www.wallpaperss.com/wp-content/wallpaper/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg

11. I-Illinois Abraham Lincoln was born & raised in Illinois.

12. J-Johnston 1861 enlisted by Bedford Forrest as a scout, Fort Donelson, partisan ranger activity in Kentucky, Col., joined John Hunt Morgan's command, Ohio raid, June 1864 Brig. Gen., at Grubb's Cross Roads was shot and blinded by his own troops, soon exchanged, continued to serve. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/cong_j.html

13. K-Killed On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-box-fordtheater.htm Picture link http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln/ Paragraph link

14. L-Log Cabin Lincoln was born and raised in a log cabin that looked like this one. http://www.rrparks.com/amartcol/mentorsix19.jpg

15. M-Mary Todd Mary Todd was the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a successful businessman, and Eliza Parker Todd, who came from a well-connected family. Mary was given an excellent education for a young woman of her time, and she later boasted about how well she had learned

16. N-Nick names http://brainsyndicate.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/abraham-lincoln-5-17-04-2-copy.jpg ABRAHAMLINCOLN, HONEST ABE, THE RAIL-SPLITTER, OR THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR http://www.wpclipart.com/American_History/civil_war/famous_people/Lincoln/Lincoln_Abraham.png http://0.tqn.com/d/dc/1/7/4/S/1/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg

17. O-One Hundred & fifty years ago http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.26456/ One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded. http://usehistory.net/?page_id=35

18. P-President Lincoln was the 16th president and one of the most famous presidents. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-26005891/stock-vector-us-president-abraham-lincoln.html

19. Q-Quotes Abrahams quotes were, The Gettysburg address, The Emancipation Proclamation.

20. R-Reelected Abraham was reelected for his awesomeness and his education in being a president.

21. S-Slavery Abraham HATED slavery.

22. T-Tall Abraham Lincoln was very tall. Can’t you tell.

23. U-Under estimate Never under estimate Abraham Lincolns power.

24. V-5 in roman numerals Abe Lincoln is on the 5 dollar bill.

25. W-Water Abraham Lincoln had to drink water to stay alive.

26. X-10 in roman numerals The Gettysburg Address was a short speech that only lasted three minuets and only had 10 lines.

27. Z-Zander Abraham Lincoln is Zander’s favorite civil rights leader.

28. Conclusion He died … http://www.nps.gov/museum/treasures/html/P/foth190.htm

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