Download Lauren Ritter Abraham Lincoln ppt

By: Lauren Ritter
 Abraham
Lincoln was born near
Hodgenville, Kentucky into a poor
pioneer family on February 12, 1809. He
was 52 when he took office, and 56 when
he was assassinated.
 Abraham
Lincoln had two brothers who
died in their youth and one sister that
lived to maturity. Her name was Sarah.
 On
April 12, 1861,Confederate South
Carolina troops fired on Fort Sumner and
thus the Civil War began. The Union and
Confederacy went on to fight for 4 years.
The war ended on April 9, 1865. About
620,000 people were lost in all.
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Abraham’s Parents:
Father: Thomas Lincoln
Mother: Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Stepmother: Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks, but when she
died of milk sickness or milk disease, Thomas Lincoln
married Sarah Bush Johnston so his children could have
a mother.
 On
January 1st, 1863 Abraham Lincoln
issued the Emancipation Proclamation,
which declared that all enslaved persons
in the Confederacy were considered free
men/ women
 Only
6 weeks into Lincoln’s presidency
on April 12, 1861, rebels fired on Fort
Sumter in South Carolina, ultimately
sparking the Civil War in the United
States.
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The Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln,
was one of the most powerful speeches he ever given.
He explained that the Civil War was a trial to test if we
could survive as a nation. He said that the soldiers
should commit themselves to finishing what the
soldiers that died before them started. He even
dedicated the Gettysburg battleground as a
remembrance site for the soldiers that were lost in the
Civil War.
 Abraham
Lincoln had many nicknames,
one of which was Honest Abe. He earned
many peoples’ favoritism by poking fun
at himself.
If I were two-faced, why
would I be wearing this one?
 Abraham
Lincoln was first inaugurated on
Monday, March 4, 1861. He was 52 years
old.
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On April 14, 1865, Lincoln and his wife attended the play Our
American Cousin at Ford’s Theater. That night, actor John Wilkes
Booth snuck into the president’s box, shot Lincoln in the back of
the head, and stabbed Henry Rathbone’s arm. He then jumped 11
feet to the floor below, breaking his ankle, but moving fast enough
to flea on horseback into the city. Booth and a co-conspirator were
later found in a barn, and the co-conspirator surrendered. When
Booth refused to come out of the barn, it was set aflame, and in the
commotion a soldier shot and killed Booth.
 Mary
and Abraham Lincoln had four kids:
Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward “Eddie”
Baker Lincoln, William “Willie” Wallace
Lincoln and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln.
Robert Todd Lincoln was the only of the
four to live to maturity and had a cleft
palate.
Edward1846-1850
Willie1850-1862
Thomas1853- 1871
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When Lincoln was a boy he owned a dog named Honey,
and then later a dog named Fido. In the Whitehouse, he
had a dog named Jip and a horse named Old Bob. He
also liked cats, and had one named Tabby, whom he fed
with gold Whitehouse utensils. When Mary suggested it
wasn’t good to feed the cat with such utensils, Lincoln
replied, "If the gold fork was good enough for
Buchanan I think it is good enough for Tabby."
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Lincoln’s wife was Mary Lincoln. She had 4 kids with
Lincoln, but only one of which lived to maturity. Though
she was fiercely loyal to her husband Abraham, two of
her brothers fought for the south and much of her
family supported the Confederacy.
Mary
Lincoln’s
Confederate
family
Mary Lincoln
after she married
into the Union
 In
truth, Lincoln had no military training
at all. Throughout his life, he read every
book he could find on battle strategy, as
his knowledge on the subject would help
him with the Civil War.
 Lincoln’s
grave has been relocated 17 times,
mostly due to fears over the presidents remains
and reconstructions of the Lincoln Tomb. The
coffin itself has been opened 5 times, and in
1876 grave robbers attempted to steal the
president’s remains.
This is the headstone.
Lincoln’s remains actually lie
in a concrete vault beneath
the floor, which was a
decision made by Robert
Lincoln after grave robbers
tried to take the body.
 Lincoln
won his first election with Hannibal
Hamlin with a total of 1,855,993 in popular
votes and 180 in electoral votes against
Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and
John Bell. In his second election with Andrew
Johnson, they received 2,211,317 in popular
votes and 212 in electoral votes against George
McClellan.
 It’s
a little known fact that Lincoln was the
tallest president. When an artist
measured him in the Whitehouse, he was
6 foot 3¾ inches tall. His shoe size was
between 12 and 14, and his hat size was 7
and 1/8.
 Lincoln
created the Republican political
party. From there the Republican party
became one of the most popular political
parties today.
 Lincoln
did serve a second term as
president, but approximately 42 days
after that term began, there was an
assassination attempt on April 14, 1865,
and he died the next day.
 On
October 3rd, 1863, Lincoln made
Thanksgiving a national holiday after
being persuaded by Sarah Josepha Hale’s
letter.
 Lincoln’s
father, Thomas Lincoln was
uneducated through his whole life as a
farmer and carpenter. Lincoln’s
stepmother urged Lincoln to read, and so
he taught himself to read and write.
 Lincoln’s
running mates both later
became his vice president. Hannibal
Hamlin was vice president from 1861 to
1865, and Andrew Johnson was vice
president in the year of 1865. Johnson
became the 17th president when Lincoln
was assassinated.
Hannibal
Hamlin
Andrew
Johnson
 While
he was in office, Abraham Lincoln
lost his son Willie to Typhoid Fever at age
11. His son Tad was still depressed long
after, as the two were very close.
Willie Lincoln
 Lincoln
started out a very successful
lawyer. He was later elected into the
Illinois state legislature and then U.S.
House of Representatives before going
on to becoming president.
 The
Lincolns adopted a home for the wounded
soldiers as their summer home in order to
escape from the pressures of the Whitehouse.
The Armed Forces Retirement Home in
northwest Washington D.C. served as Lincoln
and his family’s home for a quarter of his
presidency.
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Lincoln was a very hard worker. He was always careful
about what he said, and was always saying things “like
a true politician.” Even in an era that greatly restricted
women’s rights, Lincoln stated he supported women's
right to vote in a letter to the Sangamo Journal. He said,
"I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage
who pay taxes or bear arms - by no means excluding
females."
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Resources:
Notes from the class
Text book pg. 726-728 and index
Video- the Presidents from the History Channel
www.google.com
http://www.alincoln-library.com
http://americanhistory.about.com
http://www.abrahamlincoln200.org
http://www.history-timelines.org
http://rogerjnorton.com