ABRAHAM LINCOLN

EARLY LIFE

• He grew up on newly broken pioneer farms of the frontier
• Abraham had almost no formal schooling—the scattered weeks of school attendance in Kentucky and Indiana amounted to less than a year
• His first view of the wider world came in a voyage downriver to New Orleans on a flatboat in 1828

PERSONAL LIFE

• Lincoln was overwhelmed by terrible depression and despondency
• The first and only real love of Lincoln's life was Mary Todd
• Four children, all boys, were born to the Lincoln's family

PRESIDENCY

• March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865 (presidential term)
• Built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.
• On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth

QUOTES

• "The best way to predict the future is to create it"
• "If you want to test a man's character give him power"
• "I walk slowly but I never walk backwards"