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Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Abraham Lincoln is born on February 12, 1809. http://nypost.com/2014/02/11/six-fun-facts-about-abraham-lincoln-the-foodie/ -
Abraham Lincoln's Early Years
Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. https://unionavenue706.wordpress.com/tag/abraham-lincoln-presidential-library-and-museum/ -
Abraham Lincoln as a Lawyer.
Lincoln had a strong interest in speechcraft and law. He had studied it in college, and eventually took up the opportunity of becoming a lawyer, http://www.webzeest.com/article/386/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Anne Todd.
On November 4, 1842 lawyer Abraham Lincoln got married to Mary Anne Todd, a Kentucky woman who lived in her sister's house in Springfield, Illinois. https://3159shroyer.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/the-lincolns-wedding-anniversary/ -
Abraham Lincoln runs for President
Lincoln decides to run for president for the first time against Hannibal Hamlin. http://www.ithaca.edu/ -
Abraham Lincoln is elected.
Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential race against Hannibal Hamlin and is elected as the first republican preseident of the United States. http://iwant2design.com/wp-content/plugins/pagemash/great-portrait-paintings -
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Speech
Lincoln shared his views about conflict against the South. He also wanted to conserve the Union. http://www.boerner.net/jboerner/?pu003d5662&paged=116 -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln. It declared that all slaves would be free in any Confederate state and would be official in any state where it applied. “And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free." http://www.emancipationproclamation.org/ -
Yosemite Grant Act of 1864
Lincoln created a revolutionary system for national parks. He perserved Yosemite for public use. This act for the first time ever made the United States Government set aside land for public use and preservation. “Upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use, resort and recreation.” http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/travel/yosemite-turns-150/index.html -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, an actor at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C, snuck into the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the head. Lincoln died shortly after. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html -
Abraham Lincoln's Funeral
Lincoln's body is set aboard a funeral train and sent off from Washington D.C, bound for his hometown in Springfield, Illinois. http://vintagealbum.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-photo-collection-of-abraham_30.html#!
