PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the United States
Lincoln born in 1809 February 2
Hodgenville, Kentucky
In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.
Thomas Lincoln
Born: January 6, 1778, Rockingham County, Virginia, VA
Thomas Lincoln was an American farmer, carpenter and father of President Abraham Lincoln
Died: January 17, 1851, Coles County, Illinois, IL
Nancy Lincoln
Born: February 5, 1784, Hampshire County, West Virginia, WV
Her marriage to Thomas Lincoln also produced a daughter, Sarah Lincoln.
Died: October 5, 1818, Spencer County, Indiana, IN
School
During his fourteenth year, Abraham very briefly attended the school taught by James Swaney. Later, at the age of seventeen, Lincoln attended a school taught by Azel W. Dorsey. Dorsey was the best educated of his Indiana teachers and probably was responsible for helping him acquire his excellent grasp of mathematics
Mary Todd Lincoln
Born: December 13, 1818, Lexington, KY
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
Died: July 16, 1882, Springfield, IL
Robert Todd Lincoln
Born: August 1, 1843, Springfield, IL
Robert Todd Lincoln was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. He was the first son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Died: July 26, 1926, Manchester, VT
Edward Baker Lincoln
Born: March 10, 1846, Springfield, IL
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Died: February 1, 1850, Springfield, IL
William Wallace Lincoln
Born: December 21, 1850, Springfield, IL
William Wallace Lincoln was the third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Died: February 20, 1862, Washington, D.C.
Tad Lincoln
Born: April 4, 1853, Springfield, IL
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln III was the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln
Died: July 15, 1871, Chicago, IL
Republican politics
1854-60
By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been outlawed in all the northern states since 1803, including Illinois, whose original 1818 Constitution forbade slavery.Lincoln disapproved of slavery, but he only demanded the end to the spread of slavery to new territory in the west.
The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the Republican nominee for the presidency, as the convention was scheduled for May
President nomination 1860
The Republican Party chooses Abraham Lincoln as their presidential nominee for the 1860 election
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on nov.6,1860, in which republicans Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat, Constitutional union candidate john bell
On April, 14 1861, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter.
The attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning civil war
Lincoln called for 75000 volunteers for 90 days
During the American Civil War, the Union referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of president Abraham Lincoln and the 23 free states and 5 border states that supported it.
After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.
Emanation proclamation
January 1, 1863.
Lincoln presents the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. Painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864
Gettysburg address 1863
With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots. The stage was set for his address at the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863.
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C