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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln. By: Dayna Vickery CSUEB Team 80 3 rd grade Social- Studies lesson. Who was Abraham Lincoln?. 16 th President of the United States of America. Mother died when he was 10 years old. Grew up in Indiana. Married to Mary Todd; had four boys. Self-taught lawyer.

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Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Abraham Lincoln By: Dayna Vickery CSUEB Team 80 3rd grade Social- Studies lesson

  2. Who was Abraham Lincoln? • 16th President of the United States of America. • Mother died when he was 10 years old. • Grew up in Indiana. • Married to Mary Todd; had four boys. • Self-taught lawyer. • Served as captain in the Black Hawk War. • Spent eight years in the Illinois Legislature. • Served two-years in the House of Representatives. • Believed in the principles of equality, democracy, and liberty.

  3. Why is Abraham Lincoln an American hero?

  4. The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 “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.”

  5. Abraham Lincoln President of the United States (1861-1865) • Civil War • - Initiated to protect the U.S. government and the Union. • - Began at Fort Sumter in 1861. • - Resulted in the freeing of slaves in the southern states. • - Ended in 1864. • Thirteenth Amendment • - Passed by congress on January 31, 1865. • - Formally abolished slavery in the United States. • Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 & 1864 • - Provided funding for the construction of the Transcontinental • railroad that was completed in 1869. • Re-Election • - Won the presidential election in 1864 for the second time.

  6. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6qAeFjCscRY

  7. Remembering Lincoln

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