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Abraham Lincoln's birth
President Abraham Lincoln was born in a backwoods cabin on February 12, 1809 -
Served in the government on Illinois
While lincoln was alive in illinois he was elected to the legislature as a Whig, where he denounced slavery, saying it was "founded on both injustice and bad policy." -
Got married.
He married Mary Todd -
Election
Became the 16th president -
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Lincoln's first election
in the 1850's all of the states were devided by slave states and free states until Lincoln has became president and set all of the slaves free -
Emancipation Proclamation
as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most impor -
gettysburg Adress
"Fourscore 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 battlefield 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 alt -
Lincoln's re-election
Lincoln was re-elected president of the United States, and told his supporters, "I earnestly believe that the consequences if this day's work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country." -
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Shot.
Lincoln went to the Ford Theatre and attended a play, and was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
