Abraham Lincoln

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5th-grade students in Mrs.novys class wrote this story. We will talk about how he died when he was young and the Emancipation Proclamation. All of these facts are kid friendly and we want to thank the website ducksters because we learned lots from them we made sure this book was not too long or boring because were kids know stuff any way go ahead and start reading and we hope you enjoy going back in time to the olden days!! Have fun!

Sir Abraham lincoln

The Beginning of Abraham's Life

Our story begins all the way in Hardin County, Kentucky. On February 12, 1809, Lincon was just born in a one-room log cabin I thought a one-room cabin I would think it would be useless but once I saw it was cool in an old-fashioned way. He was little so they did not have slaves instead he was taught how bad slavery is. Also how wrong it is to. When he was 7 he had to move to Indiana but they got a pretty nice house there. It was not like their room loge a cabin once he had moved he got pashinate about reading and righting. He grew his brain while also growing his working skills so he had to chop down wood with an ax for some days. Abraham Lincon had many jobs one was a shopkeeper and he got that job when he was 23 but once he was 22 he moved to Illinois and bought the shop a while after he served as caption during the Black Hawk War! He ran for political office for the first time. Then when he was 25 he ran again for the house of representatives. He meets marytodd when serving in the representatives and then they get married in 1842 when he was 33 years old.

random fact: Lincon was famous for his beard but back then they were called whiskers MEOW!!!!

The Emancipaton Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation was an incredible choice that Abraham Lincoln made. The Emancipation Proclamation was something that Abraham Lincoln issued on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves from the Confederate States. The Emancipation Proclamation was five pages long and tied off with blue and red ribbon. Now here is the crazy part, 4 million slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and more than 360,000 of them in North Carolina! Abraham Lincoln was very brave and a very good person. He stood up for what was right and made amazing things happen. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed thier demand that the war for Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. The Proclamation declaired, "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Before the Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln bought the slaves for 1 million dollars (which was a LOT of money back then) and then let all of them free. It is crazy how he spent 1 million dollars on slaves just to let them be free and have a good rest of their life!

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The Gettysburg Address

Today Lincoln often remembered for a short speech he gave at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. It’s called the Gettysburg address. It was short but considered one of the greatest speeches of American History. The reason why the Gettysburg Address was the best speach in American History was because it explained America's critical challenges in thier historical contex while paying tribute to the men who had died in the face of those challenges. The very first sentence of the Gettysburg Address was, "Four score and 7 years ago our fathers brought forth on this contenent a new nation."

Abraham's Death

On the morning of April 14, 1865 (A Good Old Friday), John Wilkes Booth learned President Abraham Lincoln would attend a performance of the comedy Our American Cousin that night at Ford’s Theatre—a theatre Booth frequently performed at. He realized his moment had arrived to assassinate Lincoln. By 10:15 that evening, the comedy was well into its last act. In the Presidential Box, President and Mrs. Lincoln and their guests, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée, Clara Harris, laughed at the show along with the audience—not knowing that Booth was just outside the door. When there was a point when the audience started laughing John Wilkes entered Lincoln's box and shot him in the back of his head manager mathborn tried to stop him but booth stabbed him rapidly, Booth was able to run out and get outside on his horse and run away. He was later caught cornered in a barn and shot because he did not surrender. President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. Mary Lincoln was not in the room with him. Soldiers quickly removed his body to the White House for an autopsy and to prepare for a funeral.
At 11:00 a.m., Vice President Andrew Johnson took the oath of office as the 17th president.
Before booth wanted to kidnap lincoln but the kidnap plan failed, Abraham Lincoln and Booth had a previous encounter at Ford's Theatre where Lincoln died. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15 then soon later on April 26 his killer John Wilkes died the same year.

Before John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, he had been plotting some drastic action for months. He had met with co-conspirators planning to kidnap Lincoln. But after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops on April 9, Booth’s intentions turned to murder. In 1864, Booth hatched a plan to help boost the Confederate Army. He was going to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners. Those conspirators almost succeeded on March 17, 1865, but Lincoln changed his plans at the last minute. When Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Booth became desperate. At some point, possibly after Lincoln endorsed limited African-American voting rights during a speech on April 11, 1865, Booth’s plan changed from kidnapping to assassination. On the same night, he and other conspirators devised a plan to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State the same day. First Lady Mary Lincoln hoped to keep her husband's remains out of the national spotlight, but Secretary of War Edwin Stanton overruled her. On April 21, 1865, a train car carrying Lincoln’s body left Washington, D.C. The train stopped in major cities en route to its final destination, Springfield, Ill. Mary Lincoln remained in Washington. On May 4th, the train arrived in Springfield. Lincoln’s body was displayed in the former Illinois Capitol and then buried in a local cemetery.