President Lincoln

2. 
 The descendant of Puritans
who intermarried Quakers.
 Owning close to 600 acres, he
was a prominent Kentucky
frontiersman.
 He married Nancy Hanks, and
together they had three
children

3. 
 The second child of
Thomas and Nancy
Lincoln.
 Born, on February 12,
1809, in a one-room log
cabin in Kentucky.
Sinking Springs, Kentucky

4. 
 When Lincoln was 7, his family moved to “free”
territory.

5. 
 As a skilled axe-man, he labored
splitting rails.
 Other than a year of formal
schooling, he taught himself to
read and write.
 He earned a reputation as a
fighter after he defeated a town
bully in a wrestling match.

6. Abraham Lincoln lifting Jack Armstrong.

7. 
 At 19, he took a job on a flatboat to New Orleans.
 It was on this trip that Lincoln witnessed slavery.
Lincoln walked back to Illinois.

8. 
 He volunteered to serve as a captain in the Black
Hawk War of 1832.
It’s believed that Lieutenant Jefferson Davis
administered the Oath of Allegiance to Lincoln.

9. 
 He moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he studied
the law, and became a successful lawyer.
Lincoln’s honesty and decency earned him the nickname “Honest Abe.”

10. 
 From 1834 to 1842, he
served, as a Whig, in the
Illinois House of
Representatives.
 He voted to expand
suffrage to white males.
 He opposed slavery and
abolition.

11. 
“The institution of slavery
is founded on both
injustice and bad policy,
but the promulgation of
abolition doctrines tends
rather to increase than
abate its evils.“
Abraham Lincoln
1837

12. 
 He married Mary
Todd.
 She was the daughter
of a wealthy Kentucky
banker.
 Together they had
four children.

13. 
Eddie
(1846 – 1850)
Robert
(1843 – 1926)
Willie
(1852 – 1861)
Tad
(1853 – 1871)

14. 
 In 1946, he was elected to
the U.S. House of
Representatives.
 He opposed the Mexican-
American War.
 After his term, he returned
to practicing law in
Illinois.
First known picture of Lincoln.

15. 
"I think I am a Whig, but
others say there are no
Whigs, and that I am an
abolitionist, even though I
do no more than oppose
the extension of slavery.“
Abraham Lincoln
1856

16. 
 Opposed the spread of
slavery.
 The candidates campaigned and
debated on the issue of slavery.
 Lincoln lost, but was now
nationally recognized.
 Favored popular
sovereignty.

17. 
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe
this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -
but I do expect it will cease
to be divided. It will
become all one thing, or all
the other.“
Abraham Lincoln
1858

18. 
 Lincoln won, defeating three other candidates.
Democrat
Democrat
Constitutional
Union
Republican

19. 

20. 
 On December 20, 1860,
South Carolina seceded
from the Union.
 They do not want Lincoln to
be president.
 Ten more will follow.

21. On February 23, 1861, Lincoln snuck into Washington, D.C. fearing assassination.

22. Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the 16th president on March 4, 1861.

23. 
 On April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery bombarded
Fort Sumter.

24. 
 The Union couldn’t win a
decisive victory until 1863.
 He appointed generals
who couldn’t defeat Robert
E. Lee on the battlefield.
 Some Northerners labeled
copperheads demanded
peace.
Lincoln at Antietam.

25. Copperheads argued that the Civil War was being fought to free the slaves, not
to preserve the Union.

26. 
 On January 1, 1863, Lincoln
freed all of the slaves in
rebel territory.
 To ensure the abolition of
slavery everywhere,
Lincoln pushed for the 13th
Amendment.
A man reading about the
article on Proclamation.

27. 
 Delivered, on November
19, 1863, four and a half
months after the Battle of
Gettysburg.
The only confirmed picture of
Lincoln at Gettysburg.

28. “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.”

29. 
 On March 9, 1864, he
appointed Ulysses S.
Grant commander of
Union forces.

30. Lincoln becomes the first U.S. President witness a battle, as union forces repel
the forces of General Early, at Fort Stevens in Washington, D.C.

31. 
 Lincoln defeated the
Democratic candidate,
George McClellan.
Lincoln Campaign Poster.

32. 

33. President Abraham Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

34. 
 On April 9, 1865, Robert E.
Lee surrendered to Grant.
 Lincoln authorized Grant
to extend generous terms
to the rebels.

35. 
 On April 14, 1865, Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes
Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theater.

36. As Lincoln dies at 7:22 A.M., Secretary of State Stanton states “He now belongs to the ages.”