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Abraham Lincoln
The Man Behind the Civil War
By: Hannah Schanzer
The Lincoln Logs Years
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Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin
in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky
His Grandpa shot by Indians when he was very young
Abe’s Father was a carpenter
Siblings, Sarah, Thomas( died as baby)
1816, the Lincolns moved to Indiana
1818, mom died
1819, father married, Sarah Bush Johnston
1828, made boat trip to New Orleans
1828, sister died in childbirth
1831, he left home for New Salem Illinois
I Love You, Mary Todd
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
Mary Todd
1818-1882
Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace, "Tad"
1843-1926
1846-1850
1850-1862
1853-1871
Early Political Life
1832
Served briefly in the Black Hawk War
Ran for State Legislator of Illinois lost
1834
Was elected to the lower house for the first of four
successive terms (until 1841) as a Whig
1836
Became Lawyer
1837
Stated that Springfield slavery was bad
Moved to became John Todd Stuart law partner
18471849
Server on term as house representative
The Guy with the Big Top Hat
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1858,Lincoln ran for the senate
seat against Stephen Douglas and
lost
Abe addressed a rally at the
Cooper Union in New York
At republican national convention,
he beat William H. Steward
Beat Southern Democrat John C.
Breckinridge, and the
Constitutional Union candidate
John Bell and became president
Selected Seward as secretary of
state, Salmon P. Chase as
secretary of the treasury, and
Edward Bates as attorney general
as cabinet members
All the time he wore a big top hat
Shot Heard Round the World,
Lets Start A Civil War!
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When Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, seven states
from the South had seceded form the Union to form
the Confederacy
The seven states had seceded because of states
rights, the northern stats (Union) did’nt want the
southern states (Confederacy) to have slaves
Against the advice of his cabinet, Lincoln provisions to
Fort Sumter, in Charleston South Carolina
Apr. 12, 1861, South Carolina fired on the fort, and
thus began the American Civil War
Mister Lincoln’s Top Man
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Ulysses S. Grant was the
perfect military
commander for the Union
He was tough and had
what people called "four
o'clock in the morning
courage."
He became the Generalin-Chief, taking control if
the whole army, in 1864
Dear Abe, Grow Some Whiskers
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Abraham Lincolns chances of
becoming re elected, he
thought were very slim
The North was tried with the
war and just wanted it to end
The rival Democrat was a man
named Gen. George B.
McClellan who was a war
hero, and a guy who would try
and get peace at any cause
Lincoln ran for president with
the slogan “Don’t swap horses
while crossing a stream
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An eleven year old girl,
named Grace Bedell, wrote a
letter to him on October 15th
1860 urging him to grow a
beard to help him in election
Lincoln responded, grew a
beard and won the election
February 16th, 1861 when he
headed for the White House,
he stopped in Westfield, New
York, where she lived, got off
the train and gave her a big
kiss
Please Spell, Emancipation
Proclamation
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January 1, 1863 when the country was entering the third
year of the civil war President Lincoln made one of this
countries most important proclamation
The proclamation stated: "that all persons held as slaves"
within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall
be free."
The statement means that all slaves in the South could
become free
The states in the North who owned slaves (Kentucky,
Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri) still could own slaves
The proclamation also said that the North would allow
black men into the army
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.”
Gettysburg Address (Continued)
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These famous words were spoken by
President Lincoln
The speech was in honor of the
solider that died in the battle of
Gettysburg
Lincoln requested that the place that
the battle was fought should become
a national cemetery
Lincoln especially wanted that area
to by a cemetery because that space
was on Robert E. Lee property
He wrote it on the back of an
envelope on the way to the place
where he was speaking
Hooray, the North Wins the War!
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A man named General William T.
Sherman confronted President Lincoln
with a dangerous and destructive plan
Sherman wanted to march through the
South using the slash and burn method
Lincoln agreed and in the fall of 1864,
thus began the merciless procession
called Sherman’s March
All of the Confederate strong holds had
fell under Sherman’s March, and the
other forts were very weak
On May 26th 1865 the last battle of the
civil war was fought, General Kirby
Smith surrendered all Confederate
forces West of the Mississippi
The North had won the war, the United
States was one country once again
Death of Lincoln
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Lincoln was a great man, but many
people didn’t like his views on slavery
On April 14th 1865 the President was
going see Our American Cousin, at Ford's
Theater with General Grant and his wife
The South had surrendered five days
before
His wife complained of having a
headache, and considered not going, but
Lincoln in insisted on going
The security guard went across the street
for a drink somewhere during the third act
Suddenly the door burst open and a man
by the name of John Wilkes Booth
pointed a derringer (a type of gun) at
Lincoln’s head and shot
The great man who had lead the North
the Civil war died the next morning
Thank You Abe
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