Awesome Abraham Lincoln!!!

                                                        Abraham Lincoln

                                          here is the  History website link: www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abrahamlincoln

                                                      By: Ash and Joe

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in one room. The log cabin was in Hardin County, Kentucky. By then his parents moved out to the southern Indiana.  After that Lincoln’s schooling was getting really not good. They had to write on SLATES! He was a self taught Illinois (Ill-i-noyes) lawyer and legislator with a reputation as a eloquent opponent of slavery, and shocked many when he overcame several more prominent contenders to win the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1860.

His election that same November pushed several Southern states to secede by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, and the Civil War began barely a month later. Contrary to expectations, Abraham Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military strategist and a savvy leader during what became the costliest conflict ever fought on American soil. His Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, freed all slaves in the rebellious states and paved the way for slavery’s eventual abolition while his Gettysburg address later that year stands as one of the most famous and influential pieces of oratory in American history.

In April 1865 with the union on the brink of victory, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by the confederate john wilkes booth; his untimely death made him a martyr to the cause of liberty and union. Over the years Lincoln’s mythic stature has only grown, and he is highly regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the nation’s history. The End!!!