Transcript #16 – Abraham Lincoln

#16 – Abraham Lincoln
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Born: February 12,
1809
Birthplace: Hardin
County, Kentucky
Term: 1861-65
Political Party:
Republican
Vice Presidents:
Hannibal Hamlin –
Andrew Johnson
Children: 4; all boys
Died April 15, 1865
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1816: Family moves to Indiana.
They disapproved of slavery in
Kentucky.
Did not attend school – lived in the
Wilderness.
1818: Mother dies
1830: Lincoln moves to Illinois.
1832: Served as Captain of
volunteers in the Black Hawk War,
but saw no action.
1833-36: postmaster of New Salem,
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1834-42: elected to the Illinois legislature. (He
was a Whig)
1836: licensed to practice law. (lawyer)
1839: Moved to Springfield, Illinois.
1842: married Mary Todd.
1847-49: Elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives from Illinois.
Feb. 1850: Ed Lincoln. His youngest son, dies
of tuberculosis.
1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act passed –
Republican party formed.
1855: tries to run for the state Senate but does
not get elected.
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1856: Unsuccessful
candidate for the
Republican VicePresidential election.
1858: Tries to run for
Senate.
Lincoln/Douglas Debates.
House Divided Speech
Lincoln does not win the
U.S. Senate Seat.
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1860: Now well known, because of the
debates, he runs for President.
1861-65: Elected the 16th President of the
U.S.
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1860: South Carolina secedes when
Lincoln is elected.
1861: Appoints all his major rivals to
key cabinet positions. Why?
He wanted to show the south that they
were united.
March 1861: Six states join South
Carolina in seceding from the Union.
They did not want an anti-slavery
president.
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April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter is fired upon.
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“First shots of the Civil War”
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April 14, 1861: 4 more states join the
Confederacy after the north threatens to
use force on the South. 11 states make
up the Confederate Sates of America.
April 15, 1861: Lincoln calls for 75,000
troops to serve 6 months in order to
repossess forts and other property
seized from the Union.
After the First Battle of Bull Run he called
for 500,000 soldiers to serve for three
years.
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June 1862: son William Lincoln dies of a
fever. (11 years old)
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Why fight? To preserve the
Union.
The Constitution protected
slavery. However, in time of war
Lincoln believed that the
Commander in Chief could
abolish slavery as a military
necessity. (1863)
January 1, 1863: He issues the
Emancipation Proclamation.
This freed all slaves in the
rebelling states.
It also allows African Americans
to serve in the Union Army.
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Gettysburg Address – 1863
After the Battle of
Gettysburg, Lincoln helps
dedicate the Gettysburg
battle site as a national
cemetery.
Lincoln states that in order
to honor these dead we
must have “A new birth of
freedom” ….
Slavery is now the main
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1864: Lincoln runs for re-election. His
opponent is Democrat George McClellan.
Lincoln Wins, thanks to the victories at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg. (turning point
battles)
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January 1865 – Lincoln urges Congress to
pass the 13th amendment. It officially
abolishes slavery in the US.
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April 9, 1865: the south surrenders at
Appomattox Courthouse.
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April 14, 1865: 5 days after the Civil War
ended Lincoln is assassinated.
Abraham and Mary Todd were attending a
play at Ford’s Theatre “Our American
Cousin”
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John Wilkes Booth, a Southern
sympathizer, sneaked into the booth
that Lincoln and Mary were in.
He pointed a small revolver between
his spine and left ear and shot.
Booth Jumped off the balcony yelling “
Sic Semper Tyranus” – (Thus always to
tyrants). He escapes….
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Lincoln is taken
to the Peterson
house across
from the
theatre. He is
pronounced
dead at 7:22
am
First
Presidential
Assassination.
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Interesting Facts:
1861: Civil War begins
1863: Gettysburg address and the
Emancipation Proclamation issued.
1863: Thanksgiving declared a national
holiday.
1865:13th amendment
1865: Civil War ends.
1865: First President assassinated.
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Inventions:
1861: transcontinental telegraph.
1862: Ironclads – first iron ships. (Monitor and
Merrimack)
1864: First submarine – Hunley (C.S.A)
States Admitted:
1863: West Virginia – breaks away from Virginia
did not believe in seceding from the Union.
1864: Nevada