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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln. Facts and Opinions. This is to be used as a review for your Lincoln study. Each page has important information. Each step has a timer to give you a chance to answer the question before you are shown answers. What was Lincoln’s childhood like?. Facts. Opinion. He was

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Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Abraham Lincoln Facts and Opinions This is to be used as a review for your Lincoln study. Each page has important information. Each step has a timer to give you a chance to answer the question before you are shown answers.

  2. What was Lincoln’s childhood like? Facts Opinion • He was • born February 12, 1809. • the son of Nancy & Thomas. • born in Hodgeville, KY. • only in school a very little time. • raised in a log cabin. He was uneducated.

  3. Name some of the personal characteristics of President Lincoln. Opinions • He was • sloppy. • honest. • secretive. Facts • He was • unorganized. • tall. • thin. • well-read.

  4. What do you know about Mary Todd Lincoln? Opinions • She was • witty. • stylish. • vivacious. • opinionated Facts • She was • defiant. • supportive. • by the President’s side when he died.

  5. Tell one fact and one opinion about President Lincoln’s children. Facts • Their names were Robert, Edward, William and Tad. • They were the first children to live in the white house. • Edward died in February 1850 • Willie died in February 1862. Opinions • They were spoiled by their parents. • President Lincoln gave them everything that they wanted.

  6. What do you know about Lincoln the lawyer? Opinions • He was • shut-mouthed. • a slow thinker. • a very good lawyer. Facts • He was • a partner of William Herndon. • very slow at speaking. • practiced law for 25 years.

  7. Why do people say that Lincoln was a great communicator? Facts Opinions • He was • the writer of the Emancipation Proclamation. • a famous debater. • the writer and presenter of the Gettysburg Address. • He was • the best speech writer of all times. • the best speaker. • the winner of the Douglas- Lincoln debates.

  8. What have you learned about President Lincoln? Opinions Facts • He was • the greatest President. • suffering with Marfan Syndrome. • uneducated because he didn’t attend school much. • He was • from a very poor family. • elected in 1860. • challenged by slavery. • President during the Civil War. • re-elected in 1864. • helped politically when Sherman took Atlanta. • assassinated April, 1865.

  9. Can you tell about the death of President Lincoln? Facts • He was • shot in the head. • killed while watching a play. • warned that someone was going to try to kill him. Opinions • He was going to die anyway from Marfan. • There were others involved in his assassination plan. • He was assassinated because the south was losing the war.

  10. Bibliography • Slide 1: "Indiana Polka" (Band). By Edmund Jaeger, arranged by J. Schatzman From Peter's Sax-Horn Journal (Cincinnati: W.C. Peters & Sons [1859]). The piece was also published in 1856 by the same firm in a piano arrangement. • Slide 2: Creel Cabin, HODGENVILLE, Larue County, KY Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site CALL NUMBERHABS, KY,62-HODGV,2- CREATED/PUBLISHED Documentation compiled after. http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ky/ky0000/ky0094/photos/071385pv.jpg • Slide 3: PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WRITING THE PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM. January 1st, 1863. http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/app/3a/3a00000/3a05801v.jpg • Slide 4: Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein, Anton, c.1823- artist. CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia : John Smith, 1865. SUMMARY Abraham Lincoln & Mary Todd Lincoln greeting Union generals, Cabinet members, & others at a reception http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02400/3g02438v.jpg • Slide 5: A photograph of the President and Thomas (Tad) made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a14000/3a14200/3a14279v.jpg • Slide 6: Lincoln as a lawyer Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.), photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1864 January 8] http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cwp/4a40000/4a40800/4a40821u.tif

  11. Bibliography • Slide 7: Lincoln Douglas debate : Du Page County Centennial, August 27th, West Chicago / Kreger. CREATED/PUBLISHED Ill[inois] : Federal Art Proj., WPA, [between 1936 and 1939] SUMMARY Poster for a reenactment of the Lincoln- Douglas debate to be held at the DuPage County Centennial, showing bust portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3f00000/3f05000/3f05200/3f05233v.jpg • Slide 8 America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets President Lincoln's favorite poem. A. W. Auner, ... Phila. [n. d.] http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/amss/cw1/cw104670/001a.tif • Slide 9: The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York : Currier & Ives, 1865. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05800/3a05805v.jpg • Reward poster for Lincoln’s killer http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a52000/3a52000/3a52083v.jpg • Slide 10: "Old Memories" (Vocal). Words and music by Stephen Collins Foster. First edition, New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1853. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmconcert.html#0008

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