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Who Was Abe Lincoln? Timeline

Book by Janet B. Pascal

made by jenna cohen

1809

February 12, 1809

Abe Lincoln was born in Kentucky. His parents were

Thomas and Nancy Lincoln.

1818

1818

Abe Lincoln's mom dies.

1819

December 2, 1819

Thomas Lincoln marries Sarah Bush Johnston. Abe got three new siblings.

1831

1831

Abe Lincoln moves to New Salem, Illinois to work in a store.

1842

November 4, 1842

Abe Lincoln marries Mary Todd. They had met at a party in Springfield, Illinois. Abe Lincoln and Mary had four sons. Only their first son Robert lived to be an adult.

1834

1834

Abe was elected to the Illinois State Legislature.

1846

1846

Abe Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois.

1856

1856

Abe Lincoln joined a new political party called the Republicans. They hated slavery.

1858

1858

Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas a senator from Illinois about slavery. It made them both famous.

1860

1860

Abe Lincoln became the 16th president of the U.S.

April 12, 1861

1861

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War started when Southern soldiers fired on the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

1862

1862

Lincoln wrote the Emanciption Proclamation that tried to free slaves in the South.

1863

1863

On November 19, 1863 Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address in Pennsylvania.

1864

1864

Abe Lincoln was re-elected President of the U.S.

1865

1865

On April 9 the South surrendered to the North ending the Civil War. On April 14 Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth and died on April 15.

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