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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham is born in a one room log cabin on Nolin Creek in Kentucky -
Abraham Lincoln
In the spring, Lincoln family moves to a 230 acre farm on Knob Creek ten miles from Singing Spring -
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Young Abraham attends a log school house -
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The Lincoln family crosses the Ohio River ans settles in the backwoods of Indiana -
Abraham
Now at 15, his friends calls his 'Abe'. He attends school in the Fall and Winter -
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Abe makes his first-ever political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River -
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Abraham becomes a a candidate for the Illinios General Assembly -
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he loses the election for General Assembly -
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Elected to the Illinios General Assembly as a member of the Whit Party -
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Abe breaks off the engagement with Mary Todd -
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Abraham is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives -
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Lincoln delivers an impassioned speech on slavery -
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States and is the first Republican. -
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Sign a law freeing salves being used by the conferderates in their war effort -
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The president issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves -
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettyburg Address at a ceramony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery -
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Lincoln is nominated for a second term as president by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats -
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President Lincoln makes his last public speech -
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John Wilkes Booth shoots the President in the head at Ford's Theater -
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President Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning -
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John Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco bar in Virginia -
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Lincoln is is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois -
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratidied. Slavery is abolished.