Jack Goldstein - 101 Amazing Abraham Lincoln Facts

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101 AMAZING ABRAHAM LINCOLN FACTS

Jack Goldstein

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Introduction

Do you want to know the important facts about Abraham Lincolns Life? Amongst many other things, the 16th US President abolished slavery, made the Gettysburg Address and was assassinated whilst in office. This easy-to-digest eBook gives you the information you need to know about President Lincoln in handily organised sections.

Whether you are writing a history project on Honest Abe or you just want to find out more about one of the greatest presidents of all time, this pocket-sized fact-book is an easy way to get the information you want fast!

Key Facts

1. Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12 th February 1809.
2. He died on the 15 th April 1865.
3. He was assassinated by a man called John Wilkes Booth.
4. Lincoln was the 16 th President of the United States.
5. He led the country through the American Civil War.
6. He brought an end to slavery in the country.
7. He is known for doing this through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
8. One of his speeches - The Gettysburg Address - is the most quoted speech in American history.
9. Lincoln was the first major leader in the US to suggest that women should have the vote.
10. Lincoln was tall - just over 6 feet 4 inches.

Growing Up

1. Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin with his father, mother and sister.
2. Although he came across as an intelligent and thoughtful president, amazingly Lincoln only received 18 months of formal education!
3. Honest Abe gave his father all of his wages until he was 21.
4. He often refused to partake in hunting and fishing as he didnt like killing animals.
5. Lincoln lived in Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana and then Illinois.
6. Lincoln was a keen reader, and always sought out new books from the villages in which he lived.
7. Throughout his teenage and young adult years, Abraham grew more and more distant from his father.
8. Some of Lincolns favourite books included the Bible, Robinson Crusoe and Benjamin Franklins autobiography.
9. At the age of 22, Abe canoed down the Sangamon River to seek a better life.
10. His journey took him to New Orleans where he witnessed slavery for the first time in his life. He then walked home!

The Younger Man

1. In 1832 Lincoln began his political career, campaigning for the Illinois General Assembly.
2. Sadly, he lost - due to his lack of money and friends with political power.
3. After settling in New Salem, Lincoln served as postmaster then county surveyor.
4. Lincoln decided to become a lawyer, and taught himself!
5. He then served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives.
6. In 1835 Lincoln voiced his wish to help end slavery - but had concerns about what would happen to freed slaves.
7. One of the suggestions he was partial to was that slaves could start a new life in the African country of Liberia.
8. In the later 1830s, Lincolns party focused on modernising the banking system.
9. They were also heavily influential in the expansion of the railroad network.
10. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving a two-year term.

Family

1. Abraham was the youngest of two children.
2. His father was called Thomas Lincoln.
3. His mother was called Nancy.
4. His family was - for a time - very rich, however his father lost all of his land because of faulty property titles.
5. After Nancy died, Thomas married a woman named Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham became very close to her, and often referred to her as Mother.
6. Lincoln had two long-term relationships before he married Mary Todd.
7. The first of these was Ann Rutledge, however she died of Typhoid fever.
8. The second was a lady called Mary Owens, to whom he got engaged - and then unengaged!
9. Lincoln had four sons with Mary Todd, although sadly only one lived past the age of 18.
10. To the best of peoples knowledge, Lincolns last surviving descendent died in the 1980s.

Campaign for Presidency

1. On the 9 th and 10 th of May 1860, Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for president.
2. His campaign team was led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Jesse Dubois and Leonard Swett.
3. As with presidential campaigns today, image was everything. With this in mind, Lincolns team embellished stories of his frontier days with his father.
4. Lincoln was known during this campaign as the Rail Candidate.
5. He won the presidential nomination for his party on the third ballot, beating Salmon P Chase and William H Seward.
6. Hannibal Hamlin was chosen as his vice president.
7. Lincoln had won a large amount of support from his belief that slavery was wrong, and was causing harm to the United States.
8. Amazingly, Lincoln made no speeches during his campaign for presidency, happy to rely on the party to do the work for him.
9. Many leaflets, posters and articles in newspapers got Lincolns message across.
10. Success followed, and Abraham Lincoln was elected president on the 6 th November, 1860.

The Civil War

1. Lincoln was the first United States president from the Republican party - but he was very unpopular in the South - he had won only two of 996 counties in the Southern States.
2. In 1861, six states - unhappy with the new president - declared themselves a sovereign nation of their own. They called themselves the Confederate States of America.
3. Some compromises were attempted to pacify these states, however Lincoln blocked these, believing these attempts to be unconstitutional.
4. In his inaugural address, president Lincoln told the South that they were not enemies, but friends.
5. After a Fort commander sent a request for supplies to Lincoln (which he met), the secessionist states considered this an act of war, and on April 12 th , 1861, civil war broke out.
6. Lincoln quickly realised the importance of acting firmly in the war, and styled himself as commander-in-chief.
7. He imposed a blockade on all confederate shipping ports. He also arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathisers.
8. Battles continued for the next few years, with the war finely balanced between the two sides.
9. One of the famous battles was at Gettysburg, where after the Union had won, Lincoln made the famous Gettysburg Address speech.
10. As 1865 approached and then began, more and more states fell to the Union, and victory was soon declared on the 9 th May.

The Gettysburg Address

1. The Gettysburg Address was delivered on the 19 th November, 1863.
2. President Lincoln made the speech at the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.