Lincoln

=﻿Summary on Abraham Lincoln =
 * Even though Lincoln's parents were from Virginia, he was born in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, was a carpenter by trade and own three farms in Kentucky before he moved the family to Indiana when Abe was only 8 years old. According to Abe, his father moved the family to Indiana because it was a free state which did not allow slavery. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abe's mother died in 1818 when he was only 10 years old. Abe had an older sister named Sarah and an younger brother named Thomas who died when he was still an infant. He recieved little education but he still managed to learn how to read and write. Lincoln's father remarried a widow by the name of Sarah Bush Johnston. In 1830, the family moved to Illinois. Lincoln worked on a farm in Salem, Illinois where he strived to gain as much knowledge as possible. Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer in 1836. Lincoln married Mary Todd,on November 4, 1842. Lincoln had 4 children but only one of them lived on into adulthood. In 1858, Lincoln ran for a Senate seat against Stephen Douglas. He lost the election, but his debates in that campaign helped him gain a reputation that would secure him the Republication nomination for President in the election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth President of the United States. One of his most famous speeches was the Gettysburg address which he delivered in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In 1863, Lincoln freed all slaves by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Abe Lincoln was re-elected in 1864 and encouraged the Southern States of the Confederacy to rejoin the Union and reunite the country. Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, he was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. Booth was under the impression that Lincoln supported the southern states. Abe Lincoln died on April 14, 1865. It is said that one week before his death, Abraham Lincoln had a dream. The dream was of someone crying inside the White House. When found the room in which someone was crying, he noticed that someone had died. When he asked about who had died, a man in the room informed him that the President had died. When President looked inside the coffin, he saw his own image. **

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= = = = = = =Confederate States of America = ====** The Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy, was the government created by the 11 Southern states of the United States after they seceded from the Union. The Union refused to recognize the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia served as president and vice president, respectively, of the Confederacy. Four other slave states—Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—remained in the Union. The latter two were actually represented on the Confederate flag, which, like the Stars and Stripes, featured a star for every state. **====